Not the best kept secret perhaps but TomTom took centre stage at Apple’s WWDC yesterday with their Satnav for iPhone application.
With Garmin concentrating on their nuvifone product the kudos was all TomTom’s as they got to reveal their new solution to the WWDC attendees.
TomTom CTO Peter-Frans Pauwels demonstrated the new car cradle that will be an option with TomTom’s SatNav app. Interestingly this cradle contains its own GPS receiver which is an admittance at least in part that the receiver in the iPhone 3G is poor.
The cradle also contains a loudspeaker and so as well as providing charge to the iPhone offers a hands-free speakerphone feature.
The app will have TomTom’s IQ Routes functionality but more detailed information has yet to be revealed. Availability expected to coincide with the release of OS 3.0 with the cradle following some time later.
