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TomTom for Android finally arrives in the Play Store
Oct 04 2012 09:00 AM |
PaulOBrien
in Android
Long rumoured to have been on the way, TomTom for Android has finally arrived in the Play Store! The app, priced at £30.99 for UK maps, £39.99 for Western Europe and £49.99 for the whole of Europe brings with it all of the best bits of TomTom's PND devices for your phone. Well, maybe not YOUR phone... because there's a catch.
The catch is that, for now, TomTom only supports devices with a screen resolution of up to 800x480 / 854x480, which excludes a raft of the latest devices!
This is a real shame as the feature set is very solid. As well as the obvious advantage of onboard maps (no data connection needed), TomTom for Android includes free lifetime updates to the map data, live 'TomTom HD Traffic' data based 'IQ Routes', Speed Camera alerts, advanced lane guidance, spoken street names, eco-routes (drive the most economical journeys), multi stop routes and much more.
Pricing is slightly higher than my existing favourite, Co-Pilot Live but, well, with the very limited device compatability it'll be an irrelevance for many MoDaCo readers.
Here's hoping the restriction is removed soon. Head on over to the Play Store to download or learn more!
The catch is that, for now, TomTom only supports devices with a screen resolution of up to 800x480 / 854x480, which excludes a raft of the latest devices!
This is a real shame as the feature set is very solid. As well as the obvious advantage of onboard maps (no data connection needed), TomTom for Android includes free lifetime updates to the map data, live 'TomTom HD Traffic' data based 'IQ Routes', Speed Camera alerts, advanced lane guidance, spoken street names, eco-routes (drive the most economical journeys), multi stop routes and much more.
Pricing is slightly higher than my existing favourite, Co-Pilot Live but, well, with the very limited device compatability it'll be an irrelevance for many MoDaCo readers.
Here's hoping the restriction is removed soon. Head on over to the Play Store to download or learn more!
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14 Comments
Zarch1972
Oct 04 2012 10:05 AM
Calamity James
Oct 04 2012 10:15 AM
Pretty underwhelmed to be honest, the decision to use such low resolutions is very shortsighted. Will definitely be sticking to Co-Pilot!
T39andcounting
Oct 04 2012 10:21 AM
I used to use TomTom on Windows Mobile back when I had a Palm Treo! I remember thinking it was a superior product when I moved to Android and started using CoPilot, but I just think TomTom have missed the boat. Majority of people will already have invested in CoPilot, or be happy using the free Google Nav. The only thing that may change this is if CoPilot decide to roll out an updated version and charge existing users for it. If they do that, I'd be tempted to switch.
Hans Gruber
Oct 04 2012 10:22 AM
Looby
Oct 04 2012 10:28 AM
PaulOBrien
Oct 04 2012 11:42 AM
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andybarker
Oct 04 2012 12:17 PM
PaulOBrien, on 04 October 2012 - 11:42 AM, said:
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Didn't you mean to say "Where do iGo to find iGo for Android?"
Did make me laugh reading the resolution limitation. I also bought CoPilot a while ago, and can't think of a good reason to go back to TomTom.
unrandomsam
Oct 04 2012 12:41 PM
Looby, on 04 October 2012 - 10:28 AM, said:
iGO is fairly picky about screen resolutions for it to look decent also.
unrandomsam
Oct 04 2012 01:01 PM
PaulOBrien, on 04 October 2012 - 11:42 AM, said:
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Seen as they only sell to OEM's the only place would be other device rom's.
(No different legally or idologically to making a sense rom for a non sense device or using the HTC IME on a none HTC device).
Navigon is the best. (Only one out of Copilot / Sygic / Navigon that knew that a certain road was a bridlepath and made a sensible decision).
I tested them all for a month. Navigon is the only one that is significantly better than you can get just by looking at a paper map and working out where you need to go.
Memory Map is good when you are walking about.
I don't think tomtom's (Teleatlas Maps) are that good for the UK.
Ordinance Survey/Navteq/Telatlas. (Best to Worst).
Problem is the best OS data costs a fortune. (I have only ever seen it for a small town).
eLJay
Oct 04 2012 06:08 PM
mrrog
Oct 04 2012 06:33 PM
mrg9999
Oct 05 2012 09:27 AM
SOUEUPA
Oct 06 2012 07:37 PM
The only issue i have is with the shity sound on the LG can't hear the comments whilst driving.
Rob.P
Oct 09 2012 11:08 AM