Don't know how new this is... just read about it a few minutes ago... and I think it's rip off... I know it's a navigation app... but $99... w/out the hardware also?? I mean I might as well get a dedicated navigation, it might actually work better and I wont have to take off my case for my phone every time I want to use the damn thing... Knowing me though... I'll probably buy it anyway.
$99 could buy you ANOTHER iPhone. No wonder we're all in debt. We buy unnecessary **** and pay the credit card later.
If they freaking mailed me the dashboard mount and the car adapter I'd be all over it...but for that price I'd rather just get a cheap one.
99 for the app and the cradle was what I expected. 129 at the most. But I am thinking the entire kit will be around 169.
Do you get free data updates? That's the big negative of in-car navs. Many of them make you pay an arm and a leg for updates ($100-$200) to the DVD and they're not updated "real-time". Maybe the updating method has changed since I bought my car "way back" in 2003.
Well.. I hope you do.... Most apps in the app store usually give free updates.. I would think they would.
Actually, yes it is. Not only does it come free with a plan that is much cheaper than AT&T's, but it actually works on a phone that allows you to multitask ... so you can, for example, pull up your calendar and get the address of your appointment, IM a friend and ask them to give you an address or pull it up on facebook, and stream internet radio at the same time while using sprint navigation with the voice over lowering the volume automatically every time it gets to a new step. And then if you get an email notification, you could actually read your email while navigation and everything else is still running. And you can take phone calls handsfree while driving without interrupting anything, and without a bluetooth headset. Oh, and with the Touchstone, you don't even have to install a car mount -- just set the phone down and it's doing all that and charging itself at the same time. Ahhhhhhh, I love my Palm Pre.
I don't get this. The built-in iphone GPS that uses Google Maps is more than adequate. Just follow the blue dot!
But it doesn't talk to you in the various different voices you can sub in. On happy days I have a sexy British chick and bad days I have Darth Vader.
If you are driving, it is a bit dangerous to be looking at your phone at the same time. Turn by turn with voice is alot better in that regard. The Sprint Instinct had turn by turn GPS with voice built in. It was really good, but I got no freaking reception at all with Sprint.
