{"id":1826,"date":"2009-06-09T10:34:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T09:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2010-05-12T17:45:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T16:45:23","slug":"tomtom-on-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/06\/tomtom-on-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"TomTom on iPhone &#8211; Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"divimgleft \" title=\"iPhone TomTom Car Kit\" src=\"http:\/\/images.mobilefun.co.uk\/graphics\/misc\/Blogs\/tomtom-iphone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">iPhone TomTom Car Kit<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s finally here!  It might have taken 2 years, but there is finally an official <a title=\"Download TomTom for iPhone from iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/clk.tradedoubler.com\/click?p=23708&amp;a=1808171&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fapp%2Ftomtom-u-k-ireland%2Fid326067542%3Fmt%3D8%26uo%3D6%26partnerId%3D2003\">TomTom Sat Nav App<\/a> for the iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>TomTom demonstrated the software at last nights WWDC conference in America and have said that it will be available soon in the app store. As well as the Sat Nav application, TomTom also revealed the <a title=\"iPhone TomTom Car Kit\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/tomtom-car-kit-iphone-4-3gs-3g-20358\">iPhone car kit<\/a> &#8211; a charging cradle that takes advantage of the new iPhone 3.0 software, and uses a GPS receiver in the cradle to boost the GPS Signal being received by the phone for greater accuracy. The cradle is an optional extra and the sat nav will work perfectly fine with out it. TomTom software will be compatible with iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.<\/p>\n<p>Updated Cradle Specs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> GPS Receiver built in to enhance Internal GPS (might also work on iPod Touch but not confirmed)<\/li>\n<li>Charges iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S<\/li>\n<li>Built in loud speaker for turn by turn directions<\/li>\n<li>External microphone for calls<\/li>\n<li>3.5mm Aux out for playing music through car stereo<\/li>\n<li>Can be used in landscape or portrait mode<\/li>\n<li>Mini USB Charger connection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More details can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/iphone.tomtom.com\/\">TomTom website,<\/a> although they&#8217;re staying tight lipped about pricing and a possible release date.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Sat Nav manufacturer Garmin have confirmed that they are <strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong> working on an iPhone solution as this could do damage to their upcoming Nuvifone, However <a title=\"Download Navigon from iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/clk.tradedoubler.com\/click?p=23708&amp;a=1808171&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fapp%2Fnavigon-mobilenavigator-british%2Fid320253828%3Fmt%3D8%26uo%3D6%26partnerId%3D2003\">Navigon<\/a> &amp; <a title=\"Download CoPilot for iPhone from iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/clk.tradedoubler.com\/click?p=23708&amp;a=1808171&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fapp%2Fcopilot-live-uk-ireland%2Fid324592881%3Fmt%3D8%26uo%3D6%26partnerId%3D2003\">Copilot<\/a> have both released applications.<\/p>\n<p>TomTom posted this video on their YouTube channel as a teaser for what&#8217;s to come.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YskygegTjAU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YskygegTjAU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>View all <a title=\"iPhone 3G S Accessories\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/cat\/Apple-iPhone-3G-S.htm\">iPhone 3G S Accessories<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.27.4 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div id=\"bari-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally here! It might have taken 2 years, but there is finally an official TomTom Sat Nav App for the iPhone. TomTom demonstrated the software at last nights WWDC conference in America and have said that it will be available soon in the app store. As well as the Sat Nav application, TomTom also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[97,795,796,810,139,811],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}