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Garmin vs TomTom for iPhone Comparison Video – App Review

Posted: November 16th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Everyday Apps | Tags: , , , , , | 25 Comments »


Garmin StreetPilot vs TomTom USA for iPhone/iPod Touch is compared using two iPhone 4′s, one with the Magellan Premium Car Kit and the other with the TomTom Car Kit. We test both GPS apps on the road and look at things such as TTS voice guidance and traffic. Garmin StreetPilot (v6.5.3) TomTom USA (v1.6) Garmin StreetPilot is available in the App Store for $39.99 TomTom USA is available in the App Store for $49.99

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25 Comments on “Garmin vs TomTom for iPhone Comparison Video – App Review”

  1. 1 SSuperCuriouss said at 6:32 am on November 16th, 2011:

    the last line is important when driving in the country with no cell signal. also, just using the iPhone maps app in the city, it often loses direction – so perhaps the actual device (antennae) is better than just using the phone app ??? Still considering.

  2. 2 drazzking22 said at 6:45 am on November 16th, 2011:

    Bar in sucks

  3. 3 multimaghrabi said at 7:38 am on November 16th, 2011:

    Telogis is better then both of them

  4. 4 multimaghrabi said at 8:23 am on November 16th, 2011:

    Telogis is the best

  5. 5 moretorque said at 8:26 am on November 16th, 2011:

    wow, i actually watched that ad in the beginning..

  6. 6 NuRevu said at 9:17 am on November 16th, 2011:

    @AllThingsAviation You would just use pinch gestures to pan/zoom the map view.

  7. 7 AllThingsAviation said at 9:58 am on November 16th, 2011:

    how do u zoom out on the tomtom map while its navigating? i can see the garmin have the + and – signs for zooming in and out. tomtom cant do that??

  8. 8 twt2e said at 10:46 am on November 16th, 2011:

    I wish I had enough time on my hands to do this kind of stuff.

  9. 9 Eminemflocka said at 11:12 am on November 16th, 2011:

    I took the TomTom GPS for a highway test (i dont have the kit and the iPhone4 is not active but GPS still works) anyways, it seemed as if TomTom got confused while i was on the highway, I didn’t know that when it wants you to take an exit that it shows a still picture of the different paths so i thought it was recalculating something and I ended up missing my exit, after that, the GPS showed that i was in the mid. of nowhere, then i just put it down, and used my own road smarts to get back home.

  10. 10 catiafomes said at 11:32 am on November 16th, 2011:

    Hey!!!

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  11. 11 mysouthernelixir said at 12:26 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    he mentioned the audio warning when 5mph overspeed limit with garmin but didn’t seem to notice why the garmin speedo glows red sometimes…its does this to warn you that you are exceeding the posted limit! something he did more than 3 or 4 times during his trip – but nothing from tomtom – so the garmin has a brilliant function that may save you a speeding fine or 3 or 4…lol.

  12. 12 dbelanger7 said at 1:20 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    I prefer tomtom because u don’t need data. All the maps are preloaded. So if your in another country or don’t have data it could be very useful. And what if your driving long. I’m sure you dont wanna use data the whole time. Tomtom just uses the GPS signal (which is not data)

  13. 13 dankelly said at 1:30 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    I’ve been a Garmin lover for a really long time, but after the last nav update it’d been giving me some screwy instructions, like the one@05:30.

    In many cases, I don’t know the area, so I follow Garmin’s instructions… only to find out that I could have just turned right – like the situation @05:30

    Thanks for posting the side-by-side!

  14. 14 sharinganforum said at 1:33 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    How does the battery hold ? Can you get somewhere without the iPhone 4 discharging?

  15. 15 xActionMANx said at 1:51 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    Cellular data is required for the Garmin app. Very useful information …. I didnt know that… thank you.

  16. 16 FuzzlePup said at 2:36 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    TomTom wont shut the hell up so I can hear Garmin’s directions.

  17. 17 PsnZvFreak said at 3:20 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    @trongie

    haha yes :)

  18. 18 qt247ha said at 3:50 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    love this video better than the other ones, you were actually which one was talking initially!

  19. 19 trongie said at 3:56 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    the garmin went a litle crazy at 5:31

  20. 20 jyllen0624 said at 4:20 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    Tom tom in an iphone should be internet online?

  21. 21 tiagolopes11 said at 5:00 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    I have a windows mobile 6.5 smartphone, and I prefer tomtom. The interface of garmin is better, so do graphics, lots of POIs (in big cities like new york, las vegas, etc maybe there’s no difference, but where I live tomtom doesn’t have much POIs), I only don’t like that robotic voice.

  22. 22 hytaeju said at 5:59 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    I’ve never used it but I think tomtom looks better than navigon

  23. 23 preet0625 said at 6:52 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    nice video but i got a ques. that does anyone of them have trucks navigation with truck route restriction and some other truck tools. i use google maps navi. nw but they are wrong sometimes.

  24. 24 jzy0104 said at 7:38 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    imo tomtom is better

  25. 25 applestoreapps said at 7:55 pm on November 16th, 2011:

    $15 discount on TomTom USA (now $34.99) :
    app-iphone.in/itunes/tomtom-usa

    Garmin StreetPilot (34.99) covers the U.S. & Canada :
    app-iphone.in/itunes/garmin-streetpilot

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