TomTom iPhone Nav App Debuts at $100

From DailyTech: One of the features common to most smartphones today is GPS. Using GPS, the devices can detect the user's current location to help them do all sorts of things from finding local restaurants and friends to getting driving and walking directions.

TomTom has announced that its iPhone GPS navigation app is now available in the App Store. The app is one of the more expensive available costing $99.99. AT&T has its own navigation application called AT&T Navigator that is free for the initial download, but comes saddled with a $10 per month subscription fee. The subscription fee over the course of a full year would make the AT&T navigation app more expensive than the new TomTom offering.

The TomTom app uses the iPhone touchscreen for navigation and lets users tap the screen to get from a starting point to their destination. The app will also work in portrait or landscape mode depending on how the phone is turned.

Features of the application include the ability to meet with friends by using the contacts menu and the ability to find local restaurants and then call for reservations. TomTom also includes its IQRoutes feature that calculates the most efficient route based on what real drivers are finding and actual road speed data. This allows the app to route users around accidents and construction.

TomTom is also offering a kit specially designed to work with the app and the iPhone. The kit offers enhanced GPS features and a mount to hold the device on the windshield of your car. There are other GPS navigation apps available on the App Store other than TomTom's offering and AT&T's own Navigator app. EWeek reports that the Navigon MobileNavigator app is available for $69.99 until August 31 and offers many of the same features the TomTom app offers.

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