Comments on: Confirmed? TomTom’s iPhone GPS Car mount will work with iPod touch, as well as 3rd party navigation apps

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:32:29 +0000

Sounds cool, but the mount and app coming to over $200 for a stripped down gps with a tiny screen doesn’t sound that great for 2g & touch owners when a featured rich gps with traffic, Bluetooth & msn with 4.3 screen can be had for less.

By: JeffT

JeffT — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:41:39 +0000

@Matt — I’ve been working with TomTom on this car kit, and yes, it has been designed and tested specifically for the iPod Touch.

You’re right: the iPod Touch does not have built-in GPS capabilities, so this is why it needs to be connected to the iPod car kit (which has a built-in GPS-receiver) to function properly.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:44:59 +0000

The article stated that, “it will work with the iPod touch”, but has anyone really tested this theory ?
Does this ipod touch has the ability to use satellites or signal to relay information by way of gps?

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:30:43 +0000

TomTom needs to add bluetooth capability to the app so I can use my third party GPS that I already own. This was a feature in the Navigator 5 software for Treo. They need to add it back in for iPhone. Furthermore, TomTom already sells a bluetooth GPS, so if it’s hardware sales they are worried about, they can always push their Bluetooth GPS product as well as their car kit.

By: Ari

Ari — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:27:22 +0000

What i would love to see is actually the reverse:
Get the TomTom iPhone app work with MY third party GPS that i already use on my Nokia N70 thru Bluetooth.
Unfortunately, they have taken that option out on the new iPhone app.
I guess the money is in the hardware sales, as the article implies

By: leviboxer

leviboxer — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:29:36 +0000

Do you have to have the TomTom app on your iPhone to use the cradle? I have CoPilot on mine which works great, but I wouldn’t mind purchaing the TomTom cradle for the added GPS and handsfree!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any views?

By: Vincent Colombo

Vincent Colombo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:54:01 +0000

Unfortunately the TomTom cradle is of absolutely no use to me given that it does not appear to have a dock pass-thru. That means if I want to use the cradle I cannot use the car integration kit I have installed. I’ve been very happy with my Navigon experience so far, so I think I’ll be sticking with that. If the TomTom cradle improved GPS performance and still let me use my car integration kit to play music through my car stereo then I would have highly considered it.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:27:09 +0000

so the app on the apple store is there for 99 bux. but will that work alone with out the cradle? if you buy the cradle will that come with a copy of the iphone app?
Come on Doc we need to know. Then i will not need to leave my gps in the car, i can take it with me in my pocket.

By: Arcterex

Arcterex — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:23:06 +0000

Do they mean compatible as in the extra-gps magic will work with Navigon and friends through sticking itself in the middle of the GPS SDK whenever it’s plugged in, or just that it’ll work to hold your iPhone so you can use Navigon while it’s in the holder? Obviously the latter isn’t all that exciting compared to the former

Course, if it is true, then that might mean that the cost is going to be big $$ as they’ll basically be selling a GPS hardware unit without a screen or the main guts, and not guaranteeing the extra $99 sale of the software.

By: darrell

darrell — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:58:06 +0000

this is friggin awesome! this means i can use this on my 1st Gen iPhone!

but i wonder why they are insistent to mention using the cradle with the 1st Gen or iPod Touch.

i also wonder if the TomTom software on the iPhone 3G/3GS will work without the cradle.

TomTom will make a fortune from this technique, i’m interested – and i’m a Garmin Nuvi owner!