Fret not — Hurricane Irene didn’t blow all the stupid out of the world. The TomTom Go Live 1535 M packs apps! The coolest one? A neutered Twitter program that only lets you broadcast your location to the internet. Vroom!
Yep, the Twitter app can’t actually read or write tweets. But if you want your followers (and anyone who searches for you) to see that you’ve safely arrived at the supermarket, or are on holidays, or something similarly stupid and potentially privacy-infringing. For $US300, you too can have a Twitter client that does basically nothing, instead of just downloading one for free on the smartphone you likely have that also likely gives GPS directions. [BusinessWire via TechCrunch]
TSH
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 11:34 AMTomTom and other GPS brands have to do whatever they can to compete against the Smartphone apocalypse.
I think this isn’t a bad thing. Unless you can’t switch the function off.
Bastard Sheep
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 12:29 PMDoes it also check in to foursquare automatically upon arrival?