Tom Tom’s long-awaited and once delayed iPhone Car Kit is on the way next month, and we finally have a price for it in the US.
Yup, the car kit will run you $120. Sure, it offers the addition of another GPS chip that will work with, and presumably augment, the GPS chip already in the iPhone. But with the software itself costing $100, the total cost of this setup is going to run over $200, and that still requires YOU to supply the “brains” (in the form of the iPhone).
For that you can get a stand alone unit and still use your iPhone for things like.. calls!
Having a father who was heavily involved in early laser and fiber-optical research, Dan grew up surrounded by technology and gadgets. Dan’s father brought home one of the very first video games when he was young and Dan remembers seeing a “pre-release” touchtone phone. (When he asked his father what the “#” and “*” buttons were his dad said, “Some day, far in the future, we’ll have some use for them.”)
Technology seemed to be in Dan’s blood but at some point he took a different path and ended up in the clergy. His passion for technology and gadgets never left him. +Dan Cohen
I have G-Map for Texas. It was cheap and comes in handy in a pinch. When I use a GPS unit for a trip, I am using my stand alone unit. It works better, has a larger screen and allows me to use my iPhone to listen to music or podcasts. G-Maps is probably not a good as Tom Tom, but much much cheaper!
http://www.s-consult.com/index.php Wayne Schulz
I’m totally with you on this — I don’t see the fascination in this car kit thing. It’s been terribly over-reported for no reason that I can see other than Apple spotlighted it on stage.
