TomTom iPhone Car Kit gets priced at $120
By Will Park on Monday, September 28th, 2009 at 6:24 PM PST In Accessories, Announcements, Apple, iPhone, iPhone OS
Following on a UK leak that revealed the TomTom iPhone Car Kit’s pricing at €99.99, TomTom has nipped US pricing rumors in the bud with a press release confirming a $120 price-point for the US. The press release (find it here) isn’t filled with the usual marketing fluff we’re used to seeing, it just gets straight to the point:
TomTom announces today that the TomTom car kit for the iPhone will have a recommended retail price of EUR 99.99 or USD 119.95.
The TomTom car kit will be available this October and will be sold separately from the TomTom app. It will be compatible with the iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS.
All further details on the car kit will be made available soon.
The pricing for the TomTom iPhone Car Kit doesn’t include the actual TomTom iPhone navigation app, so the total price for Americans looking to get in on TomTom’s GPS software is going to come in at $219.94. Of course, you can use the TomTom iPhone GPS navigation app without the GPS-boosting car kit, but GPS performance will suffer.
Is $200+ too much to pay for iPhone navigation? Would you pay for both the app and the car kit?
[Via: Cnet]
i think that if the tom tom car kit not only charges but plays music/voice navigation through the radio/speakeres i think it might be more worth it.
$219.94 Is way more than its worth when you can buy a full PND from TomTom for that much. For the price of the app it should come with the cradle considering how poor the app is even Sygic is a better app and that says a lot. Navigon is the gold standard.