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TomTom for Android lands in Google Play store
Article by: Darren Griffin
Date: 4 Oct 2012
It's been a very long time coming but the wait is finally over. TomTom for Android has launched and is now available in the Google Play app store.
TomTom for Android has similar features to its iOS counterpart but the user interface has been re-jigged with a different map view info pane layout. 2D/3D map views, voice guidance, multi-stop and eco routes are all present,
HD traffic is available as an extra cost option and lifetime map updates are included in the app purchase price.
Western Europe comes in at £39.99, a £10 saving over its iOS equivalent but you'll need a hefty 2.7GB of free space before you can install it.
Source: TomTom at Google Play
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 Posted by IanS100 on Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:27 am |
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Unfortunately, it isn't compatible with the Samsung Galaxy S111, probably the best selling Android phone on the market - what a massive c0ck-up by TomTom
Galaxy Note 4 / TomTom GO : CamerAlert : CoPilot |
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| Posted by madgee on Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:38 am |
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Neither is it compatible with HTC One S and X amongst others.
Please let this be a technical issue with Google Play and not some mad limited release!
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| Posted by peterc10 on Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:10 am |
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Well it is not available on my HTC Sensation running Android 2.3. And neither is it available on my Asus pad running Android 4.1. So just what is it compatible with, given that it appears to not be the most popular or the latest version of Android? And all this despite the link saying that it is compatible with Android 2.2 and up.
Yet another TT problem? A saying about breweries comes immediately to mind.
Peter
HTC Sensation
Sygic GPS for Europe (No more TT "support"!)
Copilot for USA
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| Posted by MaFt on Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:14 am |
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Showing as not compatible with my Motorola Atrix 4G (MB860) too 
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| Posted by Darren on Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:24 am |
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Compatible with both my Galaxy SII (running JB) and ZTE Blade on 2.3.
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| Posted by madgee on Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:25 am |
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If TomTom doesn't make this relaease for my HTC One S then, after many loyal years, I am switching to Sygic on Android.
The Sygic app uses Tomtom's maps and more importantly, has just implemented HD Traffic.
So it may well be bye bye Tomtom, you need a massive reality check.
http://www.sygic.com/en/android
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| Posted by technik on Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:40 am |
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Available for my Samsung Galaxy S2, but not my Asus TF101 tablet.
GO 620, Tomtom Android EU,
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| Posted by baldbazza on Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:47 am |
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| madgee Wrote: | | If TomTom doesn't make this relaease for my HTC One S then, after many loyal years, I am switching to Sygic on Android. |
Make sure you test Sygic out thoroughly! I for one will be switching back from Sygic to TomTom because I'm fed up with Sygic's idiosyncratic routing algorithms trying to take me down a narrow country lane when there's a perfectly good dual carriageway next door (North Wales), or through a narrow 20mph zone village centre with speed humps when the bypass is free-flowing (Hampshire), or the wrong way up several one-way streets (Birmingham).
Sygic is very pretty but I can't remember using it for a journey when it hasn't screwed up somewhere on the way.
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| Posted by samsul on Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:23 am |
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Does not support Galaxy Note. It looks like only supports 1 or 2 phones. Well done Tomtom.
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For All Your Mobile Needs |
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| Posted by IanS100 on Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:16 pm |
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By the looks of it, if you have a high end phone released in the last 12 months you're stuffed, ironically this is the very market I would've expected TomTom to be targeting 
Galaxy Note 4 / TomTom GO : CamerAlert : CoPilot |
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