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TomTom App Review?
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Bit of a sweeping statement there.. maybe it's a regional thing but I never found the Navigon POIs lacking on our 2500 mile trip around Europe. It found all the hotels, ports, restaurants, petrol stations etc that we were looking for. And that was back in version 1.0.
Matt
Here's my first impressions of the Western Europe version...
Menu system is good, works well with iPhone hardware. Some features I had hoped for aren't there, such as traffic and customisable voices etc - I guess (hope?) an update will address these soonish.
The actual routing/navigation is exactly as expected. Found a good local route across town using IQ Routes to avoid a well known traffic hotspot on an A road.
The quality of the maps is standard TomTom, as far as I can tell. They are basic, but functional. GPS lag is noticeable, but no worse than my Windows Mobile device running TomTom Navigator.
Haven't been on the motorway yet, so don't know if it has the "Advanced Lane Guidance" that some TomTom dedicated units have.
Will post back if I notice anything interesting...
Andy
Menu system is good, works well with iPhone hardware. Some features I had hoped for aren't there, such as traffic and customisable voices etc - I guess (hope?) an update will address these soonish.
The actual routing/navigation is exactly as expected. Found a good local route across town using IQ Routes to avoid a well known traffic hotspot on an A road.
The quality of the maps is standard TomTom, as far as I can tell. They are basic, but functional. GPS lag is noticeable, but no worse than my Windows Mobile device running TomTom Navigator.
Haven't been on the motorway yet, so don't know if it has the "Advanced Lane Guidance" that some TomTom dedicated units have.
Will post back if I notice anything interesting...
Andy
Just downloaded it in the W Europe guise and it seems pretty intuitive (just as well as there's no manual as far as I can see!).
Big gripe though, I tried calling my phone while it was navigating and it drops to call then after hanging up it has to re-launch TomTom software and re-calculate route. I know this is a limitation of the iPhone rather than the software itself, but Apple will have to address this if it wants to cream its revenue from $100 apps long term as this is a big limitation.
This would really be annoying if you were using it handsfree in your car and you were stuck with no GPS for the duration of your call.
Big gripe though, I tried calling my phone while it was navigating and it drops to call then after hanging up it has to re-launch TomTom software and re-calculate route. I know this is a limitation of the iPhone rather than the software itself, but Apple will have to address this if it wants to cream its revenue from $100 apps long term as this is a big limitation.
This would really be annoying if you were using it handsfree in your car and you were stuck with no GPS for the duration of your call.
anyone know if you can mix and match regions into one app? Or do i need two different apps if i want Scandinavia and the USA?
At the moment you will need to buy separate apps. I imagine in the future you might be able to buy additional maps through in-app purchasing, along with additional voices, TomTom traffic, etc.
Andy
I'm assuming that if I'm using any of these GPS apps on my iphone, I won't be able to listen to music at the same time?
I bought Tom Tom last night, just messing around, I like it better. The trip can be looked at by instructions, poi's are better. There may be more, but it will take time to find out.
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you like it better than what? and do you have that "what" or are you speculating?
Okay thanks, so what do you like about tomtom that is better than the others, more specifically navigon. navigon has lane assist/reality view, does tomtom have that? me, trying to decide. thanks.
Works fine. You can also use the phone while navigating.
If a call comes in, answer it, click the home button to put the phone call into the background and resume the TomTom application.
I had to do this earlier today and it worked great. You don't get the voice prompts to turn, etc, but that's to be expected. Everything else worked perfectly.
It's definitely a regional thing, I'm talking about the US version. It's not that the POIs are lacking, it's just that they're difficult to browse and find without knowing the exact information about where you're searching.
All of the GPS programs are going to need external power for extended use. It's the nature of the beast.
At the risk of taking this thread off-track, yes, it's a problem with the search implementation for Navigon POIs. They're all there, it's just that finding them is a problem with the way they've implemented search. I have iGo MyWay which uses the same Navteq POI database and it finds POI's easily even if you don't have the city correct.
No, it doesn't have either of those features that I know of, I'm not sure how well it will do in such situations, most of my everyday travel is on rural type roads with limited traffic. Next trip I take, I will put it to the test.
I have TomTom and Navigon.
Navigon owns NAVTEQ.
TomTom owns Tele Atlas.
It's great to have 2 different maps.