|
Sep 08
|
Just when you thought we’d forgotten about the whole iPhone antenna issue, an article on Gizmodo shows us how to check our iPhone reception.
This trick will work for any iPhone rocking the new iOS 4.1 firmware. Read More
|
Sep 08
|
A brand name like TomTom has become almost as synonymous as Kleenex over the last decade. Just like my grandmother calling any social networking sites, “The Facebooks,” she has similarly christened any mobile GPS unit as a “TomTom.” So with a solid name recognition (and the loving adoration of my Nana), when it was announced to be coming to the iPhone, I wasn’t really that shocked.
What is surprising, however, is the fact that since September of last year, the app has been iterated on and updated four times. A fifth refresh is currently in the works and looks to focusing on the ever-expanding population of iPhone 4 owners. Here are some of the highlights of version 1.5:
- Navigate-to-photo – Users can easily navigate to a location by selecting a photo stored in the iPhone gallery. Locations are identified by geo-tags.
- Optimization for iPhone 4 – Takes full advantage of the capabilities of Apple’s latest iOS device, the app now delivers high resolution graphics, sharper maps, more-responsive menus and improved positioning even in areas with limited GPS reception.
- Latest, most up-to-date maps – Because on average 15% of roads change every year, the TomTom App comes with the latest and most up-to-date map. No mobile signal or data plan is required to browse the map and navigate to a destination.
I would like to take a brief moment to dwell on the statistic that 15% of roads change every year. How is that even possible? This has to be either some kind of drastic miscounting, or Europeans have streets that shift more often than the Grand Staircase in the Harry Potter novels. I really have a hard time knowing that this could be accurate, unless they count construction detours as “road changes.”
At the end of the day, this update will bring the TomTom iPhone application up-to-date with the newest technology available. Here’s to hoping that the next refresh includes auto-driving functionality, lord knows my Grandma could use that too.
[ TomTom Receives an iPhone 4 Themed Refresh is a post from 148Apps ]
|
Sep 08
|
We still maintain that you’ve got better options than TomTom when it comes to iPhone GPS software, but if you pulled the trigger before giving yourself a moment to consider what you were actually doing, this here news may just interest you. In an effort to maintain compatibility with Apple’s latest and greatest iPhone, TomTom is now including a simple adapter for all Car Kit orders going out on September 1st or later. If you ordered one prior to that, you can apply down in the source link for a freebie to be sent your way. Or just hack something up in the garage that looks like the insert above. Your call, vaquero.
[Thanks, Dan]
Continue reading TomTom offers free iPhone 4 adapter for Car Kit
TomTom offers free iPhone 4 adapter for Car Kit originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
|
Sep 08
|
On launch day of the iPhone 4 I was 26th in line at the Mall of America. I arrived at 2 in the morning and by the time Apple opened their doors there were easily over 300 people waiting behind me. I know that everyone in line that day didn’t go home with the new iPhone. It was blissfully maddening.
The latest shortage reports are coming out of Australia where TUAW shows the country’s carriers are feeling the heat from a high demand, low supply market. With cell carriers down under getting new shipments each week, and the Apple stores in the US each day, I feel like the company purposely shorthands their retailers and inadvertently causes chaos… Read More
|
Sep 08
|
I once bought a pair of retro Air Jordan that were strikingly ugly but nonetheless a one of kind product. I thought by owning these I was cool. Needless to say I was 16 years old.
Touch My iPhone highlights a new iPhone dock that may earn bonus points for creativity but puts my old tennis shoes to shame. The iRetrophone Skyliner mimics your grandmother’s old stationary phone (the handset on the dock actually works) and offers the following description… Read More
Comments