TeleNav Working On PND-Like iPhone App, Gets Around iPhone SDK Clause
Well before the 3G iPhone was released we heard that TomTom was developing a PND-like application for Apple’s popular mobile phone. But it was seemingly nixed when some fineprint in Apple’s iPhone software development kit forbid any PND-like software for the phone, though TomTom later said they would still be working on some sort of app. But now TeleNav, a global leader in location-based application has apparently found their way around the clause and is working on their own iPhone app offering voice-guided turn-by-turn directions, rerouting and real-time traffic alerts using an interface similar to those used on popular PND’s. How exactly TeleNav was granted permission to develop such an application is unknown; the company won’t comment, but obviously Apple has found special circumstance with the company.
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[...] So why all the hoopla about the 3G iPhone’s GPS pre-release from Apple, only to launch an under-delivering product? New York Time’s tech head David Pogue says that the GPS antenna used by the iPhone is just too small to emulate real-time navigation. But Apple product manager Greg Joswiak says that’s just not so. He says the GPS in the 3G iPhone is just as capable as that in other mobile devices that do provide real-time navigation. But he conceded that there are some “complicated issues” preventing real-time driving apps at the moment. Fair enough, but what “complicated issues” could prevent Apple themselves from integrating it into the phone’s software? We may never know, but he added that “it will evolve” making us think real-time navigation will come to the 3G iPhone sometime in the not-too-distant future. Maybe in partnership with TeleNav? [...]
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