[magic77]

So planning to change my phone and pretty much have decided on the Iphone which means I have to get some satnav since my HTC use to handle this, any recomendations on which tomtom to get.

Ideally I need european maps just can decide on xl or normal.

Also any one used the new ones with IQ routes

[jrah]

I've never used TomTom myself so can't help you there. However if you don't mind using your phone as a sat nav you can buy a Sat Nav App for the i-Phone don't know how good it is though.

[Neil McRae]

you can get tomtom for the iphone now.

[MEGA]

Jailbreak the phone and install tomtom on the iPhone free of charge

[335DPOWER]

You will love the i phone mate proper bit of kit
As for sat nav i have a garmin in the van and it works pretty well.

Hows you anyway,family ok?

[Darkeeboy]

I got the TomTom for the iphone last week - very good. Just remember to have a charging cable in the car as it zaps the juice.

[magic77]

thanks guys if I get iphonewill be buying either the hard wired brodit cradle or the tomtom cradle so power not a problem.

Darkeeboy one question I have, could you try this and let me know what happens.

If you are running tomtom and its navigating to your destination, what happens when a call comes in.

For example on my HTC if tomtom is on and navigating or just tracking with GPS as I do that for speed cameras when a call comes in flashes up the phone display so you can answer then it returns to tomtom it just mutes the directions and continues running just as normal.

Does the iphone do that or does it kick you out of tomtom, and if it does do you ahve to start setting your destination or just resume where it left off once you end call

thanks

[themetz]

i've just upgraded the miswah to an iphone.

that was on thursday.

she's only just stopped playing with the f*cking thing.

i've got a feeling valentines night won't be quite what I was hoping for

[magic77]

well its amzing what the phone places in town dont know, did some digging and turns out that on iphone the tomtom and copilot apps are fully locked. So you cant put camera alerts or custom pois. There is just about a back door to put POIs on TOMTOM on the iphone but the app does not have POI warnings so basically useless. I got to say its a joke, considering tomtom has had apps for windows mobile for over 5 years with all this functionality to bring something out half baked is a joke.

With Copilot only way is to jailbrake and thats not area I wish to touch. so thats that I either get TOMTOM seperate and IPHONe or its back to HTC.

Doh

[Darkeeboy]

yeah, unfortunately the iphone can only handle one app at a time so any call kills TT and you have to reload and set up the navigate to bit again. This statement is what Ive researched rather than tested tho.

[magic77]

cool thanks thats seems to put a nail in it, if I go iphone I have to get tomtom.

which now brings to new task which one ???

[F31-340i]

quite a bit of info here - says app restarts after phone call - but I guess you loose the navigation while talking, which could be an issue!

http://iphone.tomtom.com/en-us/faq.html

[cdb]

Originally Posted by magic77

cool thanks thats seems to put a nail in it, if I go iphone I have to get tomtom.

which now brings to new task which one ???

can you wait a month? there's a couple new HTC's running Android on the horizon.. iphones are still a good piece of kit, but part of me think's there'll be another new model announcement sometime towards summer.

i have co pilot running on my htc's but don't really use it, i just keep a TOMTOM ONE in the glovebox. only downside is paying extra for the safty camera updates.

[NathanJT]

I'd definately wait.

There are already spy shots of the iPhone 4G (or parts of it at least) and you're looking at a release of June time. So if you can wait until then you'd save yourself the hassle of either having to buy a sim free 4G, or your new contract out.

[magic77]

I've tried to find some decent info all I managed to come across is a sort of wish list for the 4g and thasts it

[NathanJT]

Well I recon we'll start to see more in the coming weeks. There's already a few leaked parts showing it to be slighly longer than the current 3GS with a different screen.

However, all I'm saying is, don't go locking yourself in for 12-18 months now when there will be a new iPhone out in a few months.

[MB London]

Originally Posted by MEGA

Jailbreak the phone and install tomtom on the iPhone free of charge

I have been wanting to do this for a whilke but not quite sure how to, any tips?

[cdb]

Originally Posted by MB London

I have been wanting to do this for a whilke but not quite sure how to, any tips?

google Redsn0w by DevTeam - it seems to be a well used way


I've also seen the parts showing a 3.7" iphone screen, sounds feasable as well..

i always think the phone you get comes down to what you want to do with it - if you want apps and 3d games iphone is still way ahead,

if you want a bit of the apps thrown in but a more tehchnically supiror piece of kit get another HTC running android - ideally one of the newer devices (check the web tomorrow morning) Android is an awesome OS and some of the apps are great, just not enough of them (yet)

[Swiller]

Got co pilot 8 on a standard un jailbreaked i phone 3gs and its the mutts swingers. £26 inc safety cam updates, warnings etc. Does the job fine.

[magic77]

have had few friends use android and while it a good devide the phone capability are terrible with dropped calls and poor signal

[magic77]

ideally what I want is a device that will give good web / email, Satnav and decent multimedia so I can watch movies,

Right now Iphone is not best at that so the HD2 is becoming even more popular option, crazy that such expensive and advnace device cant multitask when windows mobile has been able to foryears, while an iphone is sleakest device it lacks in functionality and the cost of getting one keep going up. Just found out a snap in cradle for iphone is £90 for the LCI, ouch.

If I can confirm either copilot or tomtom will work on HD2 I think it might be a short term fix certainly be more cost effective

[a1reader]

If you jailbreak your iphone you can have multitasking, i.e. run TomTom and talk on the phone all at once. Jailbreaking is not as bad as it sounds, really easy to do now and you can always go back to normal at any time. Consider it.