Tom Tom to iPhone Users- “Just Buy A Standalone GPS, People”
Posted on 25 September 2009, at 9:30 am, by Dan Cohen
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!
One comment over on Gizmodo says it best…
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September 25th, 2009 at 9:37 am
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!
September 25th, 2009 at 10:24 am
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.