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TomTom Launches $100 iPhone App

TomTom’s new app for Apple’s iPhone is getting attention for its high price tag of $99.99 but is garnering positive first impression in the gadget blogosphere.

The app offers many of the features offered in its standalone GPS devices, including navigation help, trip-planning tools and multi-language support. “True, it’s not the first app offering turn-by-turn driving instructions for the iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS — but it is from TomTom, an industry heavyweight that is finally delivering on years of rumor and speculation,” Thomas Ricker of Engadget writes.

On Silicon Alley Insider, Dan Frommer calls it “the $100 iPhone app you might actually buy,” adding, “Assuming you use it for more than 10 months, the one-time fee will end up being a better purchase than other similar apps, which run as $10 per month subscriptions.”

As several bloggers noted, the app’s price doesn’t include the adapter kit, which allows the iPhone to be mounted and charged while driving.

In May, the Journal’s Lauren Goode reviewed TomTom’s One 140S GPS system, a portable touch-screen device that sells for $199.95.

It steered her into a traffic jam and cut off at one point during her trip, but operated without the lag time that afflicts some GPS devices and correctly calculated the duration of her trip. “At just under $200, it’s a recession-friendly device that fits in your cup holder, your pocket, even on your bike, and its features and functionality outweigh its quirks,” she said.

[Thanks: http://blogs.wsj.com]

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