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As someone else said, im sure loads of people will moan when they release the price.
To be honest though, you shouldn't. If you look at tomtom's website, software for other mobiles/pda's has always cost around £90 in the uk store (i suppose that makes it about $150) with a map. More maps cost more. For those saying, sod that i may as well buy a standalone, whats the point, the point is very simple. Conveiniance. Conveiniance of having one device to it all. If you dont want to pay for tomtom, stick with xGPS, its good, i use it, but i miss the tomtom i used to have on my HTC. So coupled with the hardware kit i expect this will cost around the same as a stand-alone unit, but from TomTom's point of view why wouldn't they charge that much. They are not going to charge 99c or even 10 bucks, purely because they never have done and never will.
All i am hoping for is that you don't HAVE to buy the car kit as well, and that you can use it just as an app. Personally, i don't find too many problems with the GPS chip using xGPS and TomTom's software will be able to understand that you are on a road, and as others say, snap to it, rather then just over-laying a blue dot on a map image like xGPS. I used tomtom on an HTC with built in chip no problems for over a year, no problems, ever. That way maybe it will be a bit cheaper at least just buying the app.
And to the person asking about the internet connection. No. TomTom will have built in maps so that it can always work offline. (That will cue a load more complaints more than likely that the maps will take up a gig, "oh man what a piece of s**t i only have 8 gigs i aint gonna waste 1 on a sat nav"...can see it now. Jeez.) The only thing it may require a net connection for is to update traffic info and the like, but i expect that to be subscription based as well, just like their standalone units and their previous mobile software.
Anyway my 2, rather long, cents worth.
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