Tom Tom sat nav app for Apple's iPhone released


iPhone users you now have even a much wider variety of navigation apps to choose from. Tom Tom, the digital mapping and routing company has released it all new turn-by-turn application for the Apple’s iPhone. This new Apple app is on sale at the iTunes stores.

The new sat-nav app uses iPhone’s built-in GPS chip to provide the users with the directions. Tom Tom iPhone software is compatible with the iPhone 3G & 3GS and smartphones running on iPhone 3.0 operating software or later.

While remarking on the release of the app, Corinne Vigreux, Managing Director of TomTom said, “With TomTom for iPhone, millions of iPhone users can now benefit from the same easy-to-use and intuitive interface, turn-by-turn spoken navigation and unique routing technology that our 30 million portable navigation device users rely on every day.”

The app brings many of TomTom's tools, including IQ Routes and safety camera position. Also, the iPhone app features landscape and portrait views, points of interest, 3D and 2D maps together with night and day views. The app has been priced at cost of $100.

TomTom was the first to announce a sat-nav application for the iPhone back in June at the Apple WWDC event. But Navigon and Co-Pilot have released sat nav apps for the iPhone before that. Here lies a major competition for Tom Tom to create a distinct position with the existing contenders. Tom Tom is looking forward to capture a larger share of the mobile apps market and plans to develop navigation app for iPod touch and other iPhone models.

The golden child of this year's WWDC iPhone love-in has finally been born. TomTom, the sat-nav with the voice of Homer, is now available (iTunes link) from the Apple App store.

The iPhone app is available now, but the in-car mounting kit that goes with it is nowhere to be seen. TomTom told us it wanted to push the app out the door, since it was ready, but the in-car kit still needs more tweaking.

The in-car kit will include another GPS antenna, which will boost the iPhone's GPS sensitivity, as well as a charging dock and a cable to connect your phone to your car's music system. But all this is optional, and TomTom promises the app will work well even without the help of the in-car kit.

No doubt TomTom decided to push the button on its app, despite the missing hardware, after it was beaten to the App Store by Navigon and Sygic, which launched back in June.

CoPilot also released its sat-nav app into the App Store (iTunes link) last week. It includes live weather reports and a social-networking feature so you can keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

The TomTom app says it will get you there faster based on historical speed measurements -- data on how fast previous drivers were going on each stretch of road. It calls this feature IQ Routes.

The TomTom app is the priciest of the current pack, at £60 for the UK and Ireland version. CoPilot Live will set you back £26 for the UK version and Navigon MobileNavigator will put a £53-sized hole in your pocket.

We'll be doing a test run on all the iPhone sat-navs soon, especially if we can convince Rory to lend us his latest Jag.

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