GPS turn-by-turn navigation comes to iPod touch

October 21st, 2009, 18:43 Posted By: wraggster

Turn-by-turn GPS navigation on the App Store has so far been restricted to iPhones, rather than iPod touches. Well, the lack of GPS in the latter has made that a necessity.
However, GeoLife and PosiMotion have teamed up to change that. They have submitted an application to the App Store that will offer turn-by-turn navigation for iPod touch as well as iPhone.
How? Hardware. iPod touch owners will need to buy PosiMotion's G-Fi mobile network/GPS router to make the app - based on GeoLife's Navmii software - work. It's a beneficiary of changes in Apple's iPhone 3.0 software that allow third-party accessories to control apps.
"There are more than 20 million iPod touch users, yet to date, there has been no way to use the iPod touch for accurate, turn-by-turn navigation," says GeoLife's Peter Atalla.
"This is about to change with Geolife’s Navmii and PosiMotion’s G-Fi. Combined these will provide secure location data to any iPod touch device."

The Navmii app will cost £29.99 on the UK App Store ($39.99 in the US). The G-Fi device will be sold for $99 following the release of the app, while supplies last.

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