[shajiby]

iFun.de, a German iPhone news site, reports [Google translation] that Navigon has officially announced its own car mount for the iPhone. The mount comes with a car charger and will be available in October at a price of "under 40 Euros" (approximately US$57). A subsequent model with its own GPS chip may be offered also. Navigon made this announcement at IFA, a consumer electronics convention currently taking place in Berlin.



Yesterday, we reported on information from Navigon indicating that an iPhone car kit to accompany its turn-by-turn navigation software was in the works. This information came to light via a wall post on Navigon's Facebook page, though no other information had been provided by Navigon through any other medium up until now.

Navigon was one of the first turn-by-turn navigation apps available for the iPhone earlier this summer, beating one of its major competitors, TomTom, to the App Store. Now that the release of TomTom's car kit for the iPhone has been pushed back to October, Navigon has another opportunity to be first-to-market with a major iPhone accessory.

UPDATE A correction has been made to note that the car kit to be released first will not have its own GPS chip, though subsequent models released may have one.

[capito08]

notice the iphone carrier on this picture is T-Mobile....LOVE IT haha

[izz]

lol @ t-mobile.

The gps chip really isnt that necessary atleast not for me, i get great reception. Better reception with navigon then with tom tom. Navigon is the betetr app but i hope that holder can be mounted to the dash.

In the end i believe you can mix and match Apps with accessory so its no biggie navigon app with tom toms mount.

[hdomingu]

so is navigon really better then tom tom?? ive been hearing this for some time now

[Fackss]

i not have gps

[Bluemetal]

Navigon ist faster and looks much better than tomtom. If you don´t believe look at the appstore rating ;)
i tried both, trust me.

And t-mobile sucks here in germany (the net is great, but the prices :razz:) as at&t sucks in USA, because they are a exclusivly apple partner.

[dertbv]

57 bucks for a car mount? Are they kidding. Oh it has a car charger, well that changes everything. Let me get rid of the cigarette adapter that i bought for 6 dollars and get this! Serious this should be no more than 20 -25 at most... it is a piece of plastic with a suction cup mounted to it..

[marcoryn]

This is way too expensive for 'only' a car mount. I miss the speaker ability. GPS extra is no pre for me, but a handsfree function is something that they had to build in I think

[ichoppryde]

Ya this is ridiculous both the TOM TOM and this cost wayyyyy to much money I guess I will be waiting a long while till these become normal prices! or 3rd party people make knock off versions :D