TomTom Car Kit for iPhone delayed until October

by Julian Prokaza
on Fri 04 Sep 2009 Comment

TomTom has delayed the launch of its Car Kit for iPhone until October — it was predicted to go on sale some time this month. The news comes from an entry on the TomTom iPhone FAQ , which states:

14. When will the car kit be available?

The TomTom car kit availability was originally planned for this summer. But we have decided to take some extra weeks in order to deliver the highest quality on this innovative product. So, the car kit will become available this October on www.tomtom.com.

Some tech news sites are speculating that the complaints from some users about the TomTom iPhone app performance is a result of it having to rely upon the iPhone GPS chipset rather than the more sensitive one provided in the Car Kit.

TomTom apparently didn’t expect the app to be approved so quickly and expected it to be available around the same time as the Car Kit that it’s intended for use with. This doesn’t make a great deal of sense unless the Car Kit is going to be supplied as part of the app’s price — which it certainly should be for £60.

Originally published on www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk, now incorporated into Broadband Genie

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