Tomtom has been available for YEARS on older platforms with much less storage space available than Dream. Their app itself is only actually a couple of MB, this is why it would fit easily on internal storage for a severely outdated palmos device, such as treo 650 (23 MB available internal). The remaining almost 1 GB north america maps, voices, etc., would be stored on the sdcard.
FYI: there is an equivalent app available on the market: copilot. And I use both tomtom (v5 on palmos + v8 on dedicated car-device) as well as android/copilot, and I can tell you that they are functionally identical. The maps for copilot seem more complete, and routing is *** MUCH MUCH FASTER *** (and just as good). The way that copilot handles it is like this; the market download is a sensible 7.5 MB. It begins with a 10 day trial period where it gives you complete access to their service, and within that 10 days (typically immediately after the 24hr return expires since that is when they get the checkout number), they will obtain your google checkout number and associate it back with your device through serial number/imei/whatever and allow it to activate (takes away the 10 day limit, it is now permanent). Regarding map downloads, this happens in one of two ways; 1) the app can download and install the maps to sdcard itself (it's an all-nighter, you might want to be connected to wifi for this), 2) you can use their desktop sync software to download and install the maps. *note: for the larger maps, your sdcard must be fat32 due to the file sizes. If download fails, you are free to try again when the space has been cleared up, therefore there is no issue regarding failed downloads. Required space for map install is 2x map size since it downloads an archive file and has to extract it on the sdcard, so about 2GB for north america maps. If you don't have that much space available, you can always buy a bigger sdcard -- you can get an 8 GB for $15 at newegg. On Aug 17, 2:14 am, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > The TomTom iPhone app launched in the last 24 hours, and the smallest version > of the it I could find (The UK & Ireland version) weighed in a 241MB, which, > if it were an Android app, simply would not install on any current device, > and that to me is a problem that needs solving. > > I know that theoretically a chunk of it could probably be downloaded > post-install, but this brings up a whole host of extra issues such as; > > - What happens if the user gets the app and then finds TomToms download > server is temporarily offline? (I can see users flocking to the 24 hour > refund button). > > - How does the TomTom server determine which version was bought (e.g. UK & > Ireland, Western Europe or Global)? (yes, this could be done by having > different apps available, but that would require TomTom to maintain multiple > apps with different packages just to achieve something the Apple App Store > does easily). > > - What happens if the user doesn't have enough SD card space to download the > map? (There no way to check this prior to purchase and install). > > I'm sure we're all familiar with the technical reasons why apps on SD cards > hasn't happened, but the thing is we're being judged by users, the devices > and apps are bought by users, and, quite frankly users don't want to know the > details they just want more space for apps > (Seehttp://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1151if you need more > convincing). > > Given all of this, I believe the longer apps on SD is put off for engineering > or time reasons the more users are going to get annoyed with it, and the more > users are going to take the view that Android is an inferior alternative to > the iPhone. > > </rant> > > Al. > -- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
