The TomTom for iPhone GPS navigation app has turned up in the New Zealand app store for a price of $81 to $125 USD, reports MacRumors today. Four versions of the app are available: U.S. & Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Separately, a UK seller recently began accepting pre-orders on an in-car iPhone kit for a combined price of $195 (the kit includes the TomTom iPhone app, a receiver, mount, in-car charger, microphone and speakers).
Did you catch that? In-car GPS providers are essentially dropping the hardware part and accepting that buyers already have most of the hardware required...it's called a smartphone. Some may oppose the convergence and keep separate devices for as long as possible, but as our music players fold into our phones, how long until the GPS unit does the same?