The iPod Touch is a great device, especially for those who don’t want to drop $70-plus per month on a cellphone contract. Sure, it still doesn’t have a camera, but most of us have a camera anyway, whether a proper point and shoot or a terrible cellphone-cam. The same can’t be said about GPS. If only there were a way to add GPS to the iPod Touch…
Wait. There is! The “GPS Navigation & Battery Cradle for iPod Touch” is a slim case which slides onto the Touch and gives it a GPS unit. The best part is that it not only works with the mapping application from the unit’s maker, Dual Electronics (free with the cradle), but will provide GPS information to any application, meaning that all those cycle-computer apps you were itching to try out will now work.
The unit itself also contains a battery to save on iPod power-drain, and a bigger speaker so you can actually hear turn-by-turn directions. It even comes with a car mount and cigarette-lighter power cable in the box. In fact, the only thing missing right now is the price: while the shipping date ? November - has been decided, the cost has not.
So far, we’re totally digging the deep hardware hooks put into the iPhone OS v.3, and the fact that it allows this kind of add-on. When Apple finally adds a camera to the Touch, and this GPS unit perhaps also gets a compass, it’ll truly be a phone-less iPhone.
Company page [Dual. Thanks, Joanna!]
Full story at http://feeds.wired.com/~r/GearFactor/~3/1beIlNHR22A/
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