I confess that I believed that TomTom was already on Android, but no. Neither they nor Garmin have a navigation app on the Android platform. That blindness they think to solve, at least the first ones. TomTom has recognized that they are preparing an application that will arrive on Google Play this summer, that is to say now. Well, I think they are late.
Those who were the great dominators of navigation, who made fortunes with maps and GPS navigators dedicated since the beginning of the last decade, TomTom for Android launched "very soon"This is how Peter-Frans Pauwels, one of the founders of the company, recognized our colleagues at Pocket-lint. "The summer season is important to us," he added without anticipating the exact day.
He also did not give details about the new application, although it should be similar to the one they already have for iOS, although with the logical changes required by a different platform. The normal thing is that it already includes the only app with the official TomTom brand that is on Google Play, your TomTom Places, to locate restaurants, shops and other places of interest around you.
He also said nothing about the price but, following the same logic, it should cost something similar to 50 euros it costs for iOS devices. But TomTom is late, very late. Since Google launched its Navigation and its integration in Google Maps, I have not needed the GPS again. I had one for the car and, honestly, I don't even know where it is. The performance of the TomTom may be finer than that of the Navigation, but enough to pay 50 euros for something that someone else gives me for free?
And above, the new version of Google Maps announced yesterday will have access to the maps in mode offline. In my opinion, TomTom, Garmin and the like They are like the horse smiths who saw the first carriage arrive in the city at the beginning of the last century. Are doomed.
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You have it clear man, as it shows that you have not used a TomTom in conditions or that you move around your neighborhood, because Navigation is light years away from a real GPS. You have looked macho.
Well, I have used it, and I can assure you that both fail like fairground shotguns, and especially the TomTom, which is more than five years ago, which makes you go through the mountains to get to a gas station that is behind a shopping center, and that the road takes longer than the center and the gas station. Apart from the fact that to get to my house, he wants me to make a turn of more than 270º and go down a sidewalk that used to be a path. And above paying year after year.
Marc, I explained myself wrong. I am not saying that dedicated GPS, like the one you carry in the car, are not yet necessary (although I have been clear for years that they are history). What I do say and repeat is that buying a navigation app to use on your mobile with Google Navigation is a waste of money.
Man I use GPS for work, a lot of car and all over Spain and navigation is useless for that, for one day sporadic use saves you from trouble but not as a work tool.
Tomtom Navigator is the best in GPS. I have a GO -750 and I have used it in the peninsula, the
Islands and abroad. I am very safe with it, although lately, since I have not updated the map of Europe, it is worth a penny. More than seventy euros, there are roads that do not come.
So I use Google, and it gets you out of trouble by being up to date but it is not as complete as Tomtom.
Well, I use the Map + RadarDroid to have radars, and the Sygic, which has nothing to envy the TomTom.
CoPilot would be one of those that Android will dominate when it comes to GPS.
Nothing like tomtom, it hurts that they do not take it seriously to the android those of the tomtom