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Navigon + TomTom Car Kit
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TheTom Tom car kit for iPhone does, indeed, look like an ideal solution for Navigon users! I have a 3GS, however, and would rather not pay for a GPS chip (or a brand name) if its not necessary. My question is:
Are there any mounts anyone recommends that provide the charging, stereo connector, speakerphone, and have the ability to rotate between portrait and landscape?
In essence I'm looking for everything the TomTom kit does, minus the GPS.
thanks for any suggestions and my apologies for derailing the topic,
Annie N.
TheTom Tom car kit for iPhone does, indeed, look like an ideal solution for Navigon users! I have a 3GS, however, and would rather not pay for a GPS chip (or a brand name) if its not necessary. My question is:
Are there any mounts anyone recommends that provide the charging, stereo connector, speakerphone, and have the ability to rotate between portrait and landscape?
In essence I'm looking for everything the TomTom kit does, minus the GPS.
thanks for any suggestions and my apologies for derailing the topic,
Annie N.
I haven't found any myself... which is why I purchased the TomTom car kit. But I'm more than happy I did. The car kit works great with Navigon and it seems to perform slightly better using the separate gps chip. All the other mounts I've looked at are either too large and bulky or don't have the additional features I want. The TT car kit is small, works great, and has all the additional features... it just costs a lost more.
I know that doesn't help you but good luck just the same in finding one! hahaGood question. Not sure. I know that it comes with a cigarette lighter power cord and it has the "small trapezoid" usb connector. I wonder if it will charge the phone amd play through the radio's USB input.
I'll try it out and post tomorrow.
FYI:
There's our answer
NOTE: I sent that question out weeks ago and just now received a response! lol And Jessica needs to work on her English grammar!
Um ... yeah ... I'm still not quite sure. Was this email referring to the car kit in use with a tomtom app or navigon app? I'm not convinced the tomtom car kit will positively work with the navigon app.
Um ... yeah ... I'm still not quite sure. Was this email referring to the car kit in use with a tomtom app or navigon app? I'm not convinced the tomtom car kit will positively work with the navigon app.
The car kit communicates only with the internal GPS chip which, I assume, is one of the reasons BT was also included. This is also why the car kit requires the car kit tool app to be installed on the iPhone. From my understanding, not only from TomTom directly but from other users, the TomTom app and Navigon communicate only with the GPS APIs within the iOS and not the hardware directly which would make sense and would make for much easier updates should Apple change the hardware. So not to sound rude, but regardless of whether or not you are convinced of this, it works and many people are using it this way.
(no offense). For the record, however, I asked about both the TomTom app and the Navigon app. Think of the car kit as a 3rd party hardware enhancement for the GPS that simply improves the signal and speed of a GPS lock. The APIs could care less how the chip works or how accurate it is, they simply bridge the communication between the app and the GPS chip. Whether that is 100% accurate or not, only TomTom knows and I highly doubt they will give us detailed information on "exactly" how the car kit works. BTW, since this is a pretty extensive thread, note that the app called Harry's Lap Timer also works well with the TomTom car kit.
When you fire it up in the cradle, it even gives you a splash note that it's accessing NMEA data from the TomTom. It's a recommended solution on his web site.
Lap Timer is a GPS lap timer for use on the race track, on rally courses, and in autocross and such. I'd occasionally lose a signal, but in a recent autox it was accurate in timing to about .02 seconds, compared to a professional optical timing system used by the race organization. It automatically trips when you get near stop and go waypoints you designate.
Rob
When you fire it up in the cradle, it even gives you a splash note that it's accessing NMEA data from the TomTom. It's a recommended solution on his web site.
Lap Timer is a GPS lap timer for use on the race track, on rally courses, and in autocross and such. I'd occasionally lose a signal, but in a recent autox it was accurate in timing to about .02 seconds, compared to a professional optical timing system used by the race organization. It automatically trips when you get near stop and go waypoints you designate.
Rob
Here you go. And if I'm not mistaken, it comes with a sort of adapter now (the new car kits) so your iPhone 4 can fit snugly.
With my original iPhone I used a TomTom bluetooth GPS receiver and paired with it using roqyBluetooth for jailbroken iPhones. Worked great. Haven't tried it with my iPhone 4 yet. You can pickup a bluetooth GPS receiver online for about $10-20.