I’m not sure why a GPS module for iPhone is seen as a surprise – it’s as nailed-on a no brainer as you can find, if you’re a GPS mapping type company. So, Engadget has an alleged spy shot of a new TomTom GPS plug-in for the iPhone, offering full satnav features for Apple’s handset.
It’s sure to find an audience, but I think it’s more interesting to speculate on Apple’s plans for putting GPS in the iPhone. When the next major revision of the handset happens next year, GPS is one of the technologies jostling for inclusion, albeit against a backdrop of Apple’s desire not to reduce the iPhone’s battery life to the levels of, say, a Nokia N95.
With that in mind, Apple will have several options: open up the iPhone to any satnav firm that wants to make an application and/or module; partner with a specific company in the same way it’s done for YouTube and Google Maps already; or go it alone by developing its own application (or more likely buying someone with the technology/skillsets).
(via Engadget)
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The TomTom G.P.S. is a very valuable tool. I own three of the devices. They make for great navigation. You can change / Tweek the Software internally so it captures more than G.P.S. SIGNALS , it can actually capture Frequencies too. You can Tweek it’s sonar availabilities to capture most any frequency, even Brain Wave Frequencies. It is pretty much awesome what I have learned online by browsing and reading up on World-IT’s and with Knowledge comes Woodland Hills POWER . When I bought my first on at BestBuy in Canoga Park, it didn’t work but for a week, then I returned it and guess what ?? My whole way I thought on the Lookout on life CHANGED ! I felt obligated to got to Porter Ranch Shepard of the Hills to get baptized and The G.P.S. Functions comes with VOICE capabilities which allows IT to talk to you while driving, yes, indeed, TomITtom has that extra SPACE internally which allows you to actually open up the DEVICE and insert a Capturing device to harness what you need to. You can download maps, Software, More SOUND and VOICES to guide you through the back roads and highways so you don’t become LOST on the way to B.A.D.D. Bel Air Drama Department, But rest assured, you shouldn’t become LOST with TomITTom G.P.S. with it’s Modified LAPD-Top of the Line features and ITs ratings in CNET as well as MiT scholars , you can count on IT taking you straight down the Hills of Winnetka and All Woodland Hills Woof Woof Parks. Happy Holidays. Who Knows, maybe you can slip a Key-logger inside the GPS and give it to someone you wish you could be like who you are insecurely sure they look better than you do in their Brand New Automobile during the Recession that they CAN AFFORD so easily. Bye Bye