HD Traffic For US On The Way

[offthegrid]

GpsPassion has found the TomTom HD Traffic module on the FCC website. See towards the end of this thread. http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=100734

GSM 850/1900 and GPRS speed only.

FCC ID S4L-HDTM

https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=966501&native_or_pdf=pdf

https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=966506&native_or_pdf=pdf

While no official announcements have been made this is further proof that they are in the midst of at least beta testing the service here. They may be holding back on details. In a few week the photos and manuals will be on the FCC site and we'll have some more info.

This will usher in a new era of real time accurate traffic info and connected gps systems for POI searches etc.

 

[curious273]

Dash

Coincidentally... or perhaps not... it looks like Amazon's price on the Dash Express has dropped from $299 to $253.48. Perhaps anticipating competition?

 

[21rouge]

Canada to have HD traffic?

 

[ChillyCat]

This is GREAT NEWS !!!


"will bring you up to five times more traffic data and cover up to ten times more roads than conventional traffic systems"

Hopefully, they [TomTom] get their shyt together and work out
a deal with Verizon.

 

[offthegrid]

This will definitely work off either AT&T or a m2m provider like Jasper since it's gsm based.

 

[offthegrid]

http://www.techdigest.tv/2008/08/tomtom_and_goog.html

Google search in a TomTom coming?

 

[ChillyCat]

This is all awesome news !!

Looks like lotsa good things comming our way !!

 

[Arno]

This could be it.

 

[ChillyCat]

This could be it.

Yup..... that's it

Looks like the 940 will have the reciever built in

Now, TomTom's gotta sell us the HD module/antenna/reciever [?] and probably a firmware/software update