Published: 17th August 2009 | Author: Kevin Anderson
Sat nav maker TomTom has launched a turn-by-turn navigation app for Apple's iPhone.
The company had demoed the software and a car kit at Apples's Worldwide Developer Conference in June. This is not a 99p impulse-buy app. The application with maps covering the UK and Ireland will set you back £59.99 and the application with maps for western Europe costs £79.99. In comparison, the CoPilot Live GPS application for the UK costs £25.99. The cost of the TomTom app also doesn't include the car kit.
They also aren't small applications, but one wouldn't expect them to be with the maps data. The UK and Ireland app weighs in at 241 MB. The US and Canada app will take up 1.21 GB of space.
However, the app is less than TomTom's own devices that start at about £100.
This isn't the first turn-by-turn navigation app for the iPhone, and TomTom has long made its software available for Nokia smart phones running its S60 operating system and also for Windows Mobile devices.
TomTom says that the application will not work on the original iPhone or the iPod touch. However, Tom Tom is working on bringing it to those devices.
