So, I went for the TomTom app and matching TomTom cradle kit as they have just release a proclip that allows a permanent mounting solution.

I've used it over the past couple of days for the first time for some serious driving and have been quite impressed. It's certainly nice to have everything in one tidy package that I take everywhere with me.

I am surprised however that 10 years after the empeg that car integration of technology is so bad. There are a few annoying things about this combination, some I feel are down to TomTom and others seem to be just the nature of the iPhone itself. One annoying thing is that if you are listening to music via the dock and you pull up and switch the ignition off the music continues to play though the internal iPhone speaker. Other things are TomTom problems, like not having the track skip buttons on screen the whole time, you can see any track info either and the quality seems somewhat worse than via the headphone jack.

I took a call today while using TomTom, the handsfree is just about ok, barely. It's too quiet in the car, but I am too loud to the caller. They did comment that even though my voice was a bit thin and swarky they couldn't hear any road noise and could hear me just fine, just too loudly. The volume control seems to work both things at the same time, annoyingly. The worst thing is the app quits to take the call. I knew it was going to do this, and I look forward to Apple allowing multitasking sometime in the future, or making taking a call like playing music, something that can continue in the background.

I also hope that bluetooth remotes are supported sometime soon, it would be a very neat solution if it did.

Cheers

Cris.