RDS-TMC GPS Gadgets and Navigation Articles

With the release of AT&T Navigator, powered by TeleNav, we saw the first release of a true street navigation application for the iPhone. Sure– there were a few other attempts ahead of TeleNav, however those lacked important critical navigation features such as voice prompts or required jailbreaking your phone. So is AT&T Navigator up to [...]

According to a message on Twitter from the FireTom folks, TomTom attorney’s have demanded that FireTom be closed down. Sorry guys, the site is closed on demand of TomTom lawyers. Thanks for using it. – FireTom For those who don’t recall, FireTom was a program you could add to certain TomTom devices that could periodically share your [...]

AT&T has released their version of “AT&T Navigator” for the iPhone. The app is “free”, but if you download it AT&T will automatically add $9.99 per month directly to your phone bill. You can cancel “any time” by calling AT&T… deleting the app won’t do it. What is notable about the app at this time [...]

Overnight we started receiving numerous reports from Garmin 7×5 users that their devices suddenly showed a firmware update on screen. Often this was in the middle of a drive and not while the device was connected to their computer. Users who allowed the update to happen have been greeted by a host of unpleasantries– from [...]

INRIX and TomTom announced this morning that the TomTom LIVE services, such as those found in the TomTom 740 LIVE will start using traffic data from INRIX. Previously TomTom had been using TrafficCast on the 740 here in the USA. At the time, we said this about the traffic service: At this point you won’t [...]

We’ve been getting reports over the past couple of days from people who have certain GPS devices, mostly from Omnitech, that are no longer connecting to satellites. No… this isn’t part of the GPS “Doomsday” scenarios conjecture floating around, this is real. Typically we’d point people to our Acquiring Satellites and people would be on [...]

I’m frequently contacted by business owners regarding map errors on GPS devices. The most common scenario is that they themselves don’t own a GPS, but their customers do. When their customers use a GPS to navigate to their location they end up a long ways away from where they need to be. This happens with [...]

Following on the heels of the big TomTom announcement yesterday, Navigon has announced they too are building an iPhone app and expect it to be available in June… before TomTom gets their app out the door. It will be available for the 3G and 3Gs models, with pricing to be announced later. The app will presumably [...]

We’ve done a lot of speculating about an app from TomTom for the iPhone. Today we find out that it is indeed real. They will also sell an optional accessory as a car mount that looks quite a bit like the current EasyPort mount. The Car Kit for the iPhone provides a microphone and speaker, [...]

At Apples WWDC event today they introduced a new iPhone feature called Find My iPhone. MobileMe Subscribers will be able to log into the MobileMe website and see where their phone is located on a Google Map. You can send a special message to the phone from the website and the message will display with [...]