Practically all summer, the buzz surrounding TomTom's
forthcoming iPhone GPS app was near deafening. But said noise apparently didn't penetrate the labs at
Navigon, as that very outfit has produced what's easily the most full-featured option on the market today. Just a week after
updating the
already-great app with text-to-speech, iPod controls and location sharing, the company is now proclaiming that live traffic will splash down in October (at least in North America). The update will enable the software to utilize real-time speed data from drivers currently en route as well as historical information in order to alert you of slow-downs and re-route you when necessary. We've personally seen live traffic functions fail more often than not, but we're giving Navigon the benefit of the doubt here until we can test it ourselves. Best of all, it'll only cost MobileNavigator users (priced at $89.99) a one-time fee of $24.99 for lifetime traffic, and if you snag it within the first four weeks after it goes on sale, that rate drops to $19.99. So, TomTom -- what now?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
SNORT @ Sep 17th 2009 11:19AM
I don't think it has anything to do with Tomtom.. but more the app that DASH will release in the near future. Since they went all software, and all that other hogwash.
Chris B. @ Sep 17th 2009 12:20PM
Um, let me know when that happens... You do know that RIM bought Dash, right? When Apple makes a BlackBerry, we'll see that Dash app! ;)
Dutch @ Sep 18th 2009 10:27AM
I bought a Navigon dedicated unit a couple of months ago. Easily and by far the worst and consistently craziest routing I have ever seen, I have gone to all the various GPS forums and everyone has the same complaint and no amount of tweaking will fix it. On sites like GPS Passion you can see people posting examples of a route with Navigon routing vs TomTom and Garmin and it is amazing, it is like navigation routing engine is stoned.
As far as the real time traffic system -- forget it, it blows, is not accurate and it is not as if it doesn't work 10% or 30% of the time -- it doesn't work 90% of the time.