TomTom to stop selling Navigator software on CDs?

G1LIW · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject:

I strongly suspect they'll be shooting themselves in the foot if they don't market v7 for general release - and they'll lose a lot of repeat custom due to such a decision, whatever the customer platform in the future as these disaffected customers move on to other satnav packages.

FrequentFlyer · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject:

I like my TT6 on my PDA. As long as they continue to support it with the odd map update every now and then, I'll carry on with it as long as possible hopefully.

Goober556 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Posts: 53

The most up-to-date v6 map is now over 12 months old so I for one am not happy about this. Time to look at alternatives methinks...

marc_holmes · Lifetime Member Joined: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 49

Maybe confirmation will come early next month, to quote to TT press release:

"19 February 2008, Amsterdam - TomTom, the world’s largest portable navigation solutions provider will hold a press conference at CeBIT, the world’s largest trade show for information and telecommunications technology on 3 March 2008 from 16.00 to 17.00. The press conference will be held on the CeBIT fairground in Hannover, Germany, at the Convention Center (CC), Room 3.

TomTom’s senior management will unveil the company’s latest developments and technologies in the portable navigation industry at the press conference. Furthermore, TomTom will showcase its products, services and latest developments at Stand E14, Hall 15 at the CeBIT trade show.
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Will anybody from PGW be there, or is that a silly question?

MrT · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:36 am Post subject:

I notice that the newer maps are being released for the V7 devices (V7.15) but no new maps for TT6 (v6.75).

This tempts me to move towards a 920 or 720 but I am reluctant to do this just yet as the yet to be launched UK HD traffic on these devices will be obtained through a bluetooth connection to a GPRS mobile phone whilst on the TomTom One HD, the HD traffic is built in with its own SIM. I would expect the 920 and 720 or their replacements to have a built in HD version in the future.

hgm · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 25, 2005 Posts: 50

Captain_Eric · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 03, 2006 Posts: 51

Like many of you, I can't imagine that TomTom will completely abandon the Pocket PC Phone market.

And, we gets some factual hope from the above mentioned video, re: HTC.

My dream is that soon, HTC will come roaring forward with a nice TomTom Navigator Version 7 (with all the fancy 730/930 updates), tuned precisely to the HTV devices (And that I can download it for free to my HTC Tilt. I would buy the maps from TomTom. That wouldn't be at all bad. If it's well "tuned" specifically to the device with fewer trade offs.

In any case, the silence isn't looking good for us Navigator guys.

FrequentFlyer · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:46 am Post subject:

Even better if it was the HTC TyTN.

wrinklyninja · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 21, 2006 Posts: 51

Well done TomTom - Yet again they have totally missed the point. I have been happily using TomTom on my Nokia phones for 2 years. Now they think that thy are going to force me down the route of using their phone. Think again!!! A lot of users have company phones and the chances of their phone being on the list of phones provided is virtually nil. I love my current phone. It is PDA, satnav etc. in one small package. Why can't these morons realise that consumerism is based on choice and value. Evil or Very Mad

G1LIW · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:59 pm Post subject:

TomTom lost me as a continuing customer the moment they failed to release new maps for v6 at CeBIT, or even to release an upgrade for the Smartphone/PPC software at that time.

CoPilot has never looked so good, frankly. Up to version 7, the screenshots I've seen make the maps look a LOT more user-friendly, and you can configure the driving/nav screen to a small extent. Hell, it even uses the OV2 POI file format.

Need I say more?

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