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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    08/18/09

    In reply to TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100
    This prompted me to buy CoPilot. Good job, TomTom. The way I look at it. All of these apps need some sort of updates to make them really good. I have a feeling the CoPilot people will be more willing to listen to their customers than the TomTom people.
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    Image of Sir Gibler Sir Gibler
    08/17/09

    In reply to TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100
    wtf are you doing putting an iPod Touch in the car kit??? EDIT: never mind just read that the car kit has another GPS sensor
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    Image of macpatrik macpatrik
    08/17/09

    In reply to TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100
    Any word on how big the app is? If it took that guy 8 min to download it's gotta be a pretty hefty app.
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    Image of TheWerewolf - Sotto voce TheWerewolf - Sotto voce
    08/17/09

    In reply to TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100
    Here's where this falls down for me.

    I live in Canada, and travel down to the US fairly often (being on the border). The moment I cross the border, my iPhone become a 'dumbphone' because I turn off data roaming. I also travel to Europe yearly - no good there either.

    In fact, a month or so ago, I was in Seattle - trying to find the Apple Store, ironically - and couldn't use the iPhone at all for that.

    Fortunately, I also had my Windows Mobile based Glofiish X800 with TomTom installed, and since it's a standalone application, I could use it without difficulty or costs.

    I actually use the nav features of the iPhone very rarely within my home city (I know where most things are), so...
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    Image of ranova ranova
    08/17/09

    In reply to TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100
    so me and a 3 other buddies pooled in to buy TomTom.

    My first impressions:

    - The Maps are much much newer than iGO and Navigon
    - The menu system is a little better than iGO - about the same as Navigon
    - 3D Navigation is horrible - its super ugly and when driving, not "smooth" as it is in iGO or Navigon - it skips frames, even on my 3GS.
    - Routing looks to be better than Navigon
    - When playing music, it actually PAUSES the track before speaking - this SUCKS. I rather have music play the same volume (like iGO) or for it to lower the volume of the song (Latest Navigon) then to actually pause the song before speaking.

    TomTom, imo, was a huge disappointment. No TTS, UI is somewhat cluttered, 3D navigation is ugly, no internet functions. ALL Hype.

    With latest versions of iGO, Navigon, and TomTom, here is what I rank them:

    1) Navigon
    2) iGO
    3) TomTom

    Have not tried AT&T Navigator, Sygic, Copilot, gokivo, etc
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    Image of dtemp dtemp
    08/17/09

    In reply to TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100
    Hopefully Giz will review the product so the rest of us know whether or not to buy the program. Since they aren't smart enough to release a crippled trial version.
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    Homerjay. Good and good for you. promoted this comment dtemp was starred dtemp was unstarred
    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    08/17/09

    @dtemp: Im hanging onto my money awaiting the same thing. Battlemodo GPS.
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    Image of dimsum4u dimsum4u
    08/17/09

    In reply to TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100
    Fail I got better things to spend $100 on. Sad thing though is there will be people that aren't informed like us that will go ahead and buy it because they know no better.
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    Image of QuiterieGauzer QuiterieGauzer
    08/17/09

    In reply to TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100
    Makes the Pre so much of a better deal.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    08/17/09

    @QuiterieGauzer: Pre's have such tiny screens. Can't believe you can use any sort of navigation with that thing.
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    Image of freakout freakout
    08/17/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Dude, you can run TomTom on a freakin' Centro and it works a treat. (I use it all the time.) Tiny screen? No biggie.
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    Image of bvelasco bvelasco
    08/17/09

    In reply to TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100
    HAHA, Comes free with my Pre!
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    08/17/09

    @bvelasco: TomTom software comes free with your Pre? That's news to me.
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    Image of EmeryBias EmeryBias
    08/17/09

    In reply to TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100
    Until I can make a phone call and still navigate, iPhone GPS's don't help me at all.
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    Homerjay. Good and good for you. promoted this comment EmeryBias was starred EmeryBias was unstarred
    Image of macpatrik macpatrik
    08/17/09

    @EmeryBias: Talking on the phone and using a GPS unit? THat makes texting and driving sound safe.
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    Image of OttaviaDolabella OttaviaDolabella
    08/17/09

    In reply to TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100
    Don't we also need to combine the app with the special dash mount though? And where do we get it if that's the case? This is a very confusing release
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    Barry99705 promoted this comment OttaviaDolabella was starred OttaviaDolabella was unstarred
    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    08/17/09

    @OttaviaDolabella: No, it works with the built in gps as well. You can use clear packing tape to stick it to your dash apparently.
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    Image of jiveabillion jiveabillion
    08/17/09

    In reply to TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100
    100 bucks? Who would spend that money on an app when they could buy a Garmin Nuvi instead? Absolutely ridiculous.
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    Image of donlphi donlphi
    08/17/09

    @jiveabillion: I suppose somebody that doesn't want to carry their phone and a separate navigation unit. The man-purse only gets so big. :)
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    Image of Davy Grolton Davy Grolton
    08/17/09

    @donlphi: I understand the whole all-in-one thing, but i still can't justify this. You're better off buying a dedicated GPS unit. If you purchase this on your iphone, what happens if you decide to not use AT&T in the near future? IF your phone breaks? IF you need to make/recieve a call?

    While the GPS app is running, can you even control your music? So you'd need another device with you anyway just to listen to your music, even though your phone can do it!

    IT just doesn't make sense to me - it's just the "ohhh" factor.
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    Barry99705 promoted this comment Davy Grolton was starred Davy Grolton was unstarred
    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    08/17/09

    @Davy Grolton: Don't know about the others, but my dedicated tomtom unit will control an iPod with a cable. I'm going to guess the same tomtom app is built in.
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    Image of jiveabillion jiveabillion
    08/17/09

    @donlphi: It's not a man-purse, it's a satchel. And I'll make room for it next to my skittles.
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    Image of Bearded Rapper Bearded Rapper
    11/26/08

    In reply to BYK-mac Can Analyze and Match Your Car's Paint Color Perfectly
    Yay! Now I can paint my car in Gay Pink!
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    11/26/08

    @I work as a meth lab technician: "...paint my car in Gay Pink! "


    As any REAL gay man knows, while there are 17 primary varieties of the color pink, and then over a dozen sub-varieties within each of those primary shades, yielding a total of 253 uniquely-named and identifiable hues of pink, NONE of them is called "Gay Pink". Sir, I call FOUL! You are a FAKE! Turn in your pink triangle, you TOTAL POSER!

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    Image of grawss grawss
    11/26/08

    @bosskev: It was added with the recent cumulative update, along with Straight Black and Cracker White.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    11/26/08

    @grawss: Damn! I knew I shouldn't let my subscription lapse!
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/26/08

    @grawss: Was that the update that added 'Closet Gray' and 'Wide Stance Tan'?
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