Tuesday, July 7. 2009

Quote of the Week

"If you have a GPS device, you're using Navteq [sic] maps."

- David L. Jannetta, one of the founders of Traffic.com, acquired by NAVTEQ, before that company was acquired by Nokia in the Altoona Mirror.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Satellite Navigation at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

TomTom Shares More Details on iPhone App

Most of the details relate not to the software but the hardware package, known as the Car Kit. They come from Tom Murray, Vice President of Market Development for TomTom. To enhance the experience and remove some of the hardware barriers of the iPhone, it will include:

- a GPS chip(!) which will be in use when the device is docked
- speaker
- mount
- microphone to make the phone into a speakerphone
- cable for power/charging
- cable to link to car stereo

A few of the more important features are still up in the air. Map Share (TomTom's user update mechanism for data) may or may not be included. My sense is that eventually it will be part of the app; it may just not make the first release. Pricing is also up in the air, though Murray suggests the company is leaning toward a single price and not a monthly subscription. Map updates would then be pay as you need them. The delivery mechanism for what might be an app with very large datasets perhaps of 1Gb (wi-fi only?) is also undecided at this point.

- MacWorld (the page says copyright 2007 in one spot - oops!)

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