They're either internally confused or intentionally being fuzzy for maximum marketing impact, and I can't say which. I'm sure they know they have a a great
PR opportunity at CES with reporters and bloggers all too anxious to get announcements out to their readers. TomTom is pretty good at creative marketing and it's not their first trip around the block. I doubt it has anything to do with hiding what they're going to do from the competition. You can be 90% certain Garmin has known pretty much what the plans are, just as TomTom knows most of what Garmin's up to.
The traffic is almost certainly RDS-TMC, nothing:"innovative" about it
AFAIK except that TT integrated traffic and power into a single cord in much the same way their major competitor has for at least two years. In addition, it may be free on certain bundles of certain models, but according to Tomtom they're asking retailers which models thy'd like to see it with. So expect at least one for BestBuy, one at Amazon and perhaps another bundle at Walmart if I were a betting man. Also according to them, free lifetime maps and traffic might be included in some packages, only free maps in others, and no claim that free maps updates will apply to all new models released after March. All in all there's more questions than answers.
I still doubt that Tomtom will roll out their own HD Traffic here in the US, but I'd love to be surprised. When I bought my 740 back mid-year TomTom indicated HD Traffic should be available before the end of last year, making my subscription equivalent to the European one. I think they missed.
)/TomTom 930 (sold) - Garmin 760 with MSNDirect / nuvi 255 (sold) - Navigon 8100T- Garmin Dakota - Motorola Droid with Google nav. On the hunt for the next best pnd.
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