Fwd: tomtom on the Neo1973

Ian Darwin ian at darwinsys.com
Wed May 30 11:43:50 CEST 2007


Thomas Gstädtner wrote:
> Well, OpenMoko still is mainly a phone platform, not a gps platform. ;)
> The Neo will me sold as a phone with the option to install software, not 
> because of its GPS chip.
> There will be much free software which will make the Neo a great 
> smartphone (hopefully ^^).
> TomTom ported its software to series60 as smartphones became popular.
> They also ported it to WinCE/Mobile.
> I'm sure they will port it to OpenMoko as they see a market.
> This is a totally new platform, so nobody could expect that TomTom 
> promises a port.
> As you see I'm confident. :-)

Well, I hope you're right! And I hope enough Neos get sold that it 
becomes worth their while.

I'd like to have good maps, and as you implied, OpenStreetMap (OSM) is 
probably years - maybe decades - from having comprehensive maps of the 
world. "Much digitization required" :-).

Ian Darwin




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