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Coming into this show, I was sure I’d hear phone aficianado Chris Ziegler from EngadgetMobile and HowStuffWorks.com guru Jonathan Strickland expound to me about how the iPhone will do everything, and how stand-alone GPS devices were the next gadget to fall to the iPhone’s mighty app-store induced dominance.
But, much like sports, we do the shows for a reason.
Turns out, phone aficinados aren’t necessarily sold on the idea of smartphone-integrated GPS-centric wonderment. For one, the new turn-by-turn Tom Tom application, which is the impetus of this whole conversation, costs $99– extremely close to the price of many bargain basement GPS units. And secondly, car drivers value the ability to be able to talk on the phone and use a GPS device at the same time without being interrupted. Two extremely right-on-the-money ideas, among the many that we talk about on the show, which you can watch right now.
Are you in love with the all-in-one device, or would you rather have two distinct devices for calling and navigating? Sound off in the comments. Distributed by Tubemogul.