Sat Navving on the iPhone
TomTom (the most famous creators of the Sat Nav) have actually teamed up with Apple in making a piece of sofware for the iPhone that does something very similar to a normal Sat Nav?
The easy answer is no. This is coming to the iPhone for around £60 which is not cheap at all. Of course the friendly woman telling you where to go is present here but what on earth happens if you recieve a telephone call when you are concentrating on the directions. Is the lovely Sat Nav woman simply saying “please stop here while you take the call” as you frantically answer “BUT I’M IN THE MIDDLE OF A MOTORWAY!!!This inventions has many flaws but then again dont all inventions.
The price isn’t exactly nice either; you can get a decent Sat Nav for cheaper that will do more than this extra application. Is it not just promoting you to look at your mobile phone when you are driving your nice, soon to be wrecked (if you are constantly looking at your phone) Mercedes orNissan?
Of course all of this could be just a little bit more hype for the iPhone? The thing is, many mobile phones have been able to do this for quite a number of years, why is the iPhone so special? It isnt at all. It is more of an added bonus to existing iPhone owners rather than a product buying piece of software which is what makes it worth having.
It doesn’t matter what car you have, or even if you are thinking of getting used cars it can work with anything just like a normal Sat Nav.
The iPhone application is jsut another option should you be interested in buying a Sat Nav.