£42.99/$74.99 iPhone sat-nav
The iPhone can do many things, one of the most useful being to guide you as you drive around. This app, from sat-nav heavyweight TomTom, is superb.
It's polished, very easy to use and features TomTom's smart IQ Routes system, which changes its route recommendation at different times of the day, since it knows when particular roads get busy; it's the slickest, most complete solution we've seen. It can use your iPhone's data connection to find navigation points using Google - a huge plus - and subscribe to traffic alerts to route you automatically around roadworks and the like. The great thing is that while, yes, you can subscribe in months-long chunks, if you only make occasional long journeys, you can opt to pay just 59p for a day's access to this live traffic data.
You'll need to find a way of mounting your iPhone safely in your car, and because constantly using GPS equals battery drain, it'll have to be plugged into your car for anything other than the shortest of journeys.
We recommend TomTom's Car Kit, though as we go to press, it doesn't work with the iPhone 4 without a little DIY. There's no doubt both are expensive, though, and there are credible, cheaper alternatives.
The iPhone can do many things, one of the most useful being to guide you as you drive around. This app, from sat-nav heavyweight TomTom, is superb.
It's polished, very easy to use and features TomTom's smart IQ Routes system, which changes its route recommendation at different times of the day, since it knows when particular roads get busy; it's the slickest, most complete solution we've seen. It can use your iPhone's data connection to find navigation points using Google - a huge plus - and subscribe to traffic alerts to route you automatically around roadworks and the like. The great thing is that while, yes, you can subscribe in months-long chunks, if you only make occasional long journeys, you can opt to pay just 59p for a day's access to this live traffic data.
You'll need to find a way of mounting your iPhone safely in your car, and because constantly using GPS equals battery drain, it'll have to be plugged into your car for anything other than the shortest of journeys.
We recommend TomTom's Car Kit, though as we go to press, it doesn't work with the iPhone 4 without a little DIY. There's no doubt both are expensive, though, and there are credible, cheaper alternatives.
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