Tom Tom Mobile 5 Pocket Satellite Navigation [Back to News Reports]

11th May 2005 - Tom Tom has released the latest mobile gadget in the UK, Tom Tom Mobile 5 satellite navigation, for those with little or no sense of directions. The TomTom Mobile 5 personal navigation system allows users to get directions from their mobile phone and displays a 3D map on the phone screen to show them where to go. The big idea is that pedestrians and cyclists apparently want something similar to in-car satellite navigation systems.

All you have to do is insert a memory card with pre-installed maps and software into your phone along with a separate Bluetooth wireless GPS receiver.

The system picks up where you are via satellite and then gives you directions using the mapping software.

Manufacturers say that it is accurate to within 50cm. If connected to the internet, it will even be able to provide a weather forecast for whichever area the pedestrian is going to, but if you are walking chances are that the weather in your target location is not going to be that different.

The Mobile 5 will cost you £200 in crisp notes. It probably will not work if you are too drunk to press the keys, which is when most of us need help walking home.

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