TomTom's iPhone car kit gets taken for a stationary test drive
By Donald Melanson 
posted October 7th 2009 6:24AM
posted October 7th 2009 6:24AM
It's been a long trip filled with hopes and confusion, but TomTom's iPhone car kit is now finally nearing an actual release (minus the bundled navigation app), and a few lucky folks are beginning to get their hands on it. While they unfortunately didn't get to take it for an actual test drive, the folks at Recombu did get to spend a bit of time with the device and deliver a few initial impressions, noting that the kit feels solid and easily accommodates your iPhone without too much effort. Interestingly, the site also says that TomTom told it that the kit will also work with "any sat-nav iPhone app," and that TomTom's own navigation app (which has apparently already sold thousands of copies) will be getting free updates. Head on past the break for a brief (and we mean brief) video.
Update: Exact sales figures removed upon TomTom's request.
Update: Exact sales figures removed upon TomTom's request.
Seems entirely possible that this will in fact work with the iPhone 2G, but the 2G isn't listed as compatible with the Tom Tom app on Tom Tom's site, so I'd read other reviews before you purchase it.
Am I the only one that has noticed the lack of a female dock port on the bottom of this? I have a dock connector on my car stereo and would like to use that to listen to music instead of blue tooth (and my car stereo has a speaker phone). I would like improved GPS signal but taking away the dock connection makes this a no go.
Interesting thing, Engadget... They diligently allow for other edited posts to retain their original stature with stricken text. Yet for this post, they remove the problematic text altogether.
I understand that the text in question was an accurate reporting of the number TomTom app copies sold, and that the ramifications are that we - the people - can crank out some math to figure out how much money TomTom (and Apple) are making. Y'all should have considered the ramifications before posting your story. I'm surprised I'm the only one mentioning this, aside from Peevish Adult and noco37.
So deleting stuff after the fact isn't cool. Please don't redact stuff, Engadget.