TomTom 1.3 Appears in App Store

OK guys, what's the best GPS for the iPhone nowadays?

OK guys, what's the best GPS for the iPhone nowadays?

From what I read I would imagine TomTom and Navigon are neck and neck for tops. But I've only used TomTom.

Honestly TomTom has been giving me a lot of GPS reception issues lately... jumping all around to random places and not locking on correctly... I didn't have any issues at all when I first downloaded it. This is mostly inside my car and not up on the dashboard for the "direct line of sight with the sky" that is supposedly needed... but again it worked flawlessly when I first got it.

The update seems nice so far, but it may or may not have corrupted my iPod app... I'm not sure I understand how that would be possible if TomTom followed the SDK. But I was unable to start music directly out of the TomTom app (after upgrading). To try to solve this I figured I would go directly to the iPod app and start from there... but it won't open. It tries to open, pauses, then quits to the homescreen. This has been happening since yesterday afternoon and I have tried a couple of hard restarts.... I will try a restore if it keeps up.

The ADD LOCATIONS is what interests me... but I would like more information on how this is implemented... I assume the 3rd party apps will have to update and add a direct link to tomtom?

man.... 19.99 a year?

Navigon's real time traffic is a one-time thing, not a yearly thing.

man.... 19.99 a year?

Navigon's real time traffic is a one-time thing, not a yearly thing.

£38 in the UK, consider yourselves lucky.

I had some problems with it keeping a GPS signal on the road yesterday and it was up on the dash. I haven't had it long but in the week or so before the update when I got it I didn't really seem to have any trouble.

I've been using copilot uk since it's launch. It's great value and works flawlessly

I own all of them and with this new upgrade, the TomTom is hands down the best. A few notes on some of the other stuff here:

On the Audio volume level adjusting, you can set it to fade down or (for pocast listeners) set it to stop and then resume.

I love the traffic interface and it shows you traffic along your entire route and tells you your estimated time delay based on traffic. As far as I understand it, it only mentions traffic that is out of the ordinary time estimation for that road. So if I-85 is always at a standstill at 8AM then you won't get a notice as that is expected. If there is a 4 lane blockage making it take 15 minutes more than normal, you will be alerted to that.

The new google stuff is great too - it shows you that location on a map and lets you call it right out of TomTom.

As for GPS reception, there are so many factors it can be based on, doesn't make sense to think it is the new app. Weather, tall buildings trees, cloud cover are all factors.

All in all, many of the other GPS's have these features, but the difference is TomTom does the best job at routing me to my destination based on drive times and that is the most important feature of my GPS. I know this can vary from location to location, but I have yet to find a place that was not in the TomTom database which happened on all the other apps I used.

Well, I'm glad to hear that they have daily and monthly options for live traffic. That's actually very convenient for me. Does anyone know how much they cost?

Wow, Tom Tom is coming out with these updates almost as fast as CoPilot did.

It's an excellent update. Although would like the traffic info free as Google does (up to a point), 59p per day is not bad. Especially when I won't require it daily