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TomTom sent me a mail advertising their new features, including things I
thought it would need like lane change information and use of their
collected traffic timing data for route planning.
The thing is - are these things we're expected to buy new units to
benefit from, or can they be put on as software updates, or do they come
as software updates we can have anyway?
I imagine both need more processing power and data so may need new
units.
- Richard
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On 2008-03-27 07:59:30 +0000, Richard Corfield
Most if not all require the forthcoming v8. An upgrade for existing
models will be made available but the detailed lane information and
traffic data are features for the map itself and so you would need to
but the v8 map to make use of them.
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Darren Griffin
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wrote:
> Most if not all require the forthcoming v8. An upgrade for existing
> models will be made available but the detailed lane information and
> traffic data are features for the map itself and so you would need to
> but the v8 map to make use of them.
> models will be made available but the detailed lane information and
> traffic data are features for the map itself and so you would need to
> but the v8 map to make use of them.
Marvellous, so the mobile phone/PDA platform is still on V6..
Hopefully they're just skipping v7 for phone users rather than letting
tomtom mobile fall 2 generations behind!
Personally I'd have thought the new phone platforms would be causing
dedicated satnav hardware serious problems so I'm surprised they're
letting tomtom mobile slide so far.
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> Marvellous, so the mobile phone/PDA platform is still on V6..
> Hopefully they're just skipping v7 for phone users rather than letting
> tomtom mobile fall 2 generations behind!
>
> Personally I'd have thought the new phone platforms would be causing
> dedicated satnav hardware serious problems so I'm surprised they're
> letting tomtom mobile slide so far.
> Hopefully they're just skipping v7 for phone users rather than letting
> tomtom mobile fall 2 generations behind!
>
> Personally I'd have thought the new phone platforms would be causing
> dedicated satnav hardware serious problems so I'm surprised they're
> letting tomtom mobile slide so far.
It would appear an odd move until you consider the rumours of a TT
Phone that are gathering pace.
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Darren Griffin
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wrote:
> It would appear an odd move until you consider the rumours of a TT
> Phone that are gathering pace.
> Phone that are gathering pace.
That would be a really daft move. Who would buy a tomtom phone rather
than have a vast choice of phones onto which you could place tomtom
software? I suppose it would avoid the piracy issue, I don't know if
that's bad enough to make it worth them abandoning the market and
selling hardware, if so then that might explain the move.
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> thought it would need like lane change information and use of their
> collected traffic timing data for route planning.
>
> The thing is - are these things we're expected to buy new units to
> benefit from, or can they be put on as software updates, or do they come
> as software updates we can have anyway?