TomTom car kit makes first appearance in the (UK) wild

The TomTom app is worthless. It never recognizes addresses and always has trouble finding a GPS signal. I have reverted to using the maps app over the TomTom app I paid $100 for. Also, I bought a car mount kit for my iPhone for $30.00. It doesn't have the GPS chip built into it that apparently the TomTom kit will have, but why does that chip make the price go up so much?

Could someone that owns one of these please try connecting it to an iPod Touch and let us know if it works? Test it with location aware apps and see if it can find your current location when you are not near any WiFi.

Why would you buy only a mount for $120 when you can get a whole GPS unit for under $100? That's just dumb. Sure, it would be nice for your phone to be an all-in-one, but considering you have the mount, that's not the case. And even if you only used the phone sans mount, you still have issues with playing music or actually using the phone while running GPS.

All-in-all it's a pretty bad solution that's only going to appeal to people who must have everything for their iPhone regardless of how useless it really is.

This mount looks attractive to me because I've been looking for a mount that will:

-Attach to my windshield
-Charge my iPhone, without having to plug something in seperately
-Grabs audio from the dock connector and outputs it through AUX out so I can plug it into my stereo.

So far, I have yet to find a car mount that does all 3..... but I would love to hear some suggestions.

I bought the $99 TomTom iPhone app and a $20 vent clip cellphone holder, been using the combination as well as the aux jack on my truck with my iPhone car charger and the whole setup works great! I find positioning to work just find, and I don't get the maps are out of date, mine seem to be just fine!
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I too was hoping that the car kit would provide GPS functionality to the iPhone 2G or iTouch so I contacted TomTom Tech Support. Here is their reply:

Thank you for contacting TomTom Customer Care
The reference number for your query is 091012-035190.

I can confirm (unfortunately) that the car kit for the i-phone will not make non-gps i-phones compatible to use with the TomTom application.

With Kind Regards

The TomTom Customer Care Team

Actually, right now the car kit is already available in the European verions of the tomtom.com/iphone website. It is not in the US and Australia

I'm in Australia and have had 3 tomtom gps' so far and each of them has had dreadful mounts. The kind you think are on but fall off; I hope the iPhone mount is better.

Now let's talk about crappy maps - I live in a rural area and like to go camping. There are many map errors and omissions that I have encountered and things are improving. But not enough that they should brag about the accuracy of their maps.

Or you can jailbreak and use xGPS for free on a 3G or 3G(s), or with the slight added cost of an external GPS receiver on a Touch (something like 80 bucks IIRC).

Granted, xGPS isn't perfect, but the price is right.

24.99 last year for my G-Map GPS and I just got another free upgrade.

I am liking the tomtom mount with their chip for my current set up. Why does that unit need to cost $120?!? How about $50?
I would switch and buy both the tomtom app and their mount for about $100 total -- wait a minute, NO I WOULDN'T!!!