What happened to TomTom Navigator 4?

appolospb · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 5

Sorry i am quite new to GPS so i may have missed something very obvious here. I have a few questions regarding TomTom Navigator:

1) What happened to version 4?. They seem to have skipped from version 3 straight to version 5. I cant seem to find any mention of a version 4 on the forums or google.

2) When is version 5 of TomTom Navigator UK (Great Britain) being released?

Thanks

Appolospb

MarkHewitt · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:45 am Post subject:

TomTom4 was the first version of the "common platform" TomTom. It was available in the USA as TomTom Navigator 2004, and in the UK with the HP Navigation bundle.

It was never on general release for use with pocket pc's.

Hope that helps.

appolospb · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 5

Cheers for the info, cant understand why they released a new version and didnt distribute it globally though. Skipping straight to version 5 seems a bit silly to me.

Wilko · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 17, 2003 Posts: 203

Could have been a limited test release or somethign along those lines.

USA was still only upto TomTom2. But we've been running TomTom 3 for almost year now. Even though theres a lot of improved features in TomTom 4, such as the navigation display runs much smoother, theres a lot of features missing, and there would have been a lot of unhappy people had they paid another £30-£40 upgrade for TomTom 4, only to discover features they like from TT3 are missing. Plus with TomTom 5 around the corner, with all the features and more such as full postcode support, it makes no business sense to release a half finished product such as TomTom 4 to the PocketPC market.

Thats just my opinion though.

carina16a · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 21, 2004 Posts: 8

Have I missed something? Going to the 'About Navigator' menu item, it tells me thatI am using TomTom Navigator App Version 4,100 (1874). It also says that the map is 'Great-Britain-Map' v300. I would have said that this all means I am using Navigator Version 4, or have I missed something?

MikeB · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject:

TomTom stated at CeBIT last year when they announced Navigator 3 that they would not release a PDA upgrade untill they had the full functionality of the V3 product in the new software. This did not happen untill version 5.

In the meantime they released a version for Palm, then GO, then Mobile. This was based on a different architecture, and they tried very hard not to call it Navigator 4 so it was called TomTom Navigator for Palm, then TomTom GO then TomTom Mobile.

Towards the end of last year they released a new software and hardware bundle which was TomTom Navigator HP edition, this was the first time that the Version 4 software appeared on a PocketPC platform, but you couldnt buy it individually. Carina16a I assume this is the version that you have. TomTom have never admitted that this was version 4. It is TomTom Navigator HP Edition Laughing

Finally at this years CeBIT TomTom announced the upgrade to version 3. This now has common functionality with the other products and 98% of the functionality of V3 plus lots of other bits. Now they couldnt call it V4 so they just skipped a number. Now every TomTom Navigator product shares a common numbering system as well as common functionality.
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appolospb · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 5

Cheers for the replies. Back to my 2nd question. Does anyone know the release date of version 5 in the UK?.

MikeB · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject:

One of the TomTom directors quoted me 1 to 2 weeks last friday. I think that until they actually officially name the day we shouldnt expect too much.
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