TomTom 1.8 (for iPhone)

TomTom's iPhone app, now at version 1.8, continues to offer highly accurate navigation and the most informative display on the market. The company has added some new features, including HD traffic and celebrity voice packs, although both of these are extra-cost in-app purchases. The competition—notably Magellan—has caught up in many ways. But TomTom for iPhone's excellent, new HD traffic plug-in alone ensures that the app retains its Editors' Choice status.

User Interface, POI Search, and Map Graphics
TomTom 1.8 is a 1.32GB download. It's technically compatible with the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, but you'll want a device with an actual GPS chip for proper navigation accuracy. For this review, I tested TomTom 1.8 U.S.A. and Canada on an Apple iPhone 4 on Verizon's network, running iOS 4.2.8.

The app boots quickly to a main menu that mostly contains toggles for various settings, such as muting the voice prompts or switching to night colors (which also happens automatically if you want). The button you need is Navigate To, which is at the top. Tap it, and you'll see options for navigating to your home, favorites, recent destinations, specific street addresses, and so on. You can also navigate directly to contact addresses, geotagged photo locations, coordinates, or points on a map as well.

For the most part, keying in street addresses was simple. As with most other GPS apps aside from TeleNav, you input the city first, followed by the street name, and then the street number. The type-ahead feature tries to figure out what you want, although it wasn't quite as fast or responsive as Magellan RoadMate 2.0 ($59.99, 4 stars). Searching for POIs is also standard fare. However, TomTom's POI database isn't the greatest, at least where I live in northeastern Massachusetts, and that also holds true for the iPhone app. Often, I'd run a POI search near me for the specific name of a store, get nowhere, and then find it via the Google Local Search feature. That's fine, I suppose, but it's a fragmented experience; Magellan RoadMate 2.0 offers smoother, more detailed POI searches, while the 22-million-entry database in the Telenav GPS Plus (for iPhone) (free, 3 stars) is the largest out there.

Once on the road, though, TomTom 1.8 really shines. It works just like the company's standalone devices—a good thing, since the iPhone version is even faster to respond to key presses, at least on the iPhone 4. TomTom still leads in displaying route information. You get all manner of data across the bottom of the screen, all of which updates in real-time. The main display shows the current street, the next turn off, how far away it is, your current speed, the speed limit of the current road, and the estimated time remaining, distance remaining, and estimated arrival time. The 3D maps still look slightly drab, and don't animate as smoothly as Magellan's revamped RoadMate 2.0 app, but they're very readable.

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