TomTom Updates iPhone App With Homer Simpson Voice Guidance [video] Post from: FSMdotCOM GPS navigation firm TomTom today announced that it has brought its  Homer Simpson celebrity voice for turn-by-turn directions to its U.S. iPhone applications, appearing as a $5.99 in-app purchase. Developed in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products (FCP), The Gracie Films Worldwide Brand Division and Locutio Voice Technologies, the original Homer Simpson voice (recorded by Dan Castellaneta), for TomTom’s range of personal navigation devices is now available for $5.99 for use on your TomTom App for iPhone in the U.S., marking the first time a celebrity voice has ever been available for mobile phone based GPS. The original Homer Simpson voice for the TomTom App for iPhone comes with all the latest maps (TomTom version 1.7), which means drivers not only receive Homer’s own special words of wisdom, such as “Woo Hoo! You have reached your destination, and you can hold your head up high, because you are a genius!” but also the latest TomTom map store on board their iPhone. The Homer Simpson voice has been available on TomTom’s standalone GPS devices for several years, but is only just now appearing as an option on the iPhone. TomTom U.S.A is available for  $49.99 in the app store … [ via macrumors]

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Navigation experts Garmin partnered with Asus up until late 2010, producing some half-hearted smartphones loaded with their GPS software.  When the divorce papers were drawn up, Garmin kept hold of the right to release their own branded navigation apps on other platforms, which has finally led to the announcement and release of their first iPhone

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If the smartphone has adversely affected the market for standalone GPS units, how will free navigation apps affect the market for pay apps?

The next revision of TomTom’s navigation software will bring several interesting changes with it, highlighted today in an early release to the press.

Navigate From Maps: Use TomTom App To Navigate From Inside Maps.app Post from: FSMdotCOM New day, new app in Cydia: Navigate From Maps. This tweak enhances the Maps app by adding a ‘Navigate Here With TomTom’ button to the info view of search result or a drop pin. Now you can search or plan for where you need to go much faster and easier in Maps but still navigate there with TomTom. NOTE: requires TomTom app to be useful. TomTom sold separately in the App Store. You can buy Navigate From Maps from Cydia Store for $1.99 via BigBoss repo

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You’re going to have to be quick though, as these offers are valid for ‘a short time’, which looks to mean between today and the 15th August!