TomTom have unveiled their new flagship PND, the TomTom GO LIVE 1000, and it’s the first from the company to pack a capacitive touchscreen and new, Webkit-based UI. The GO LIVE 1000 comes with a year’s subscription to TomTom’s LIVE services including HD Traffic – which can show congestion details on highways and smaller roads – via an integrated Vodafone connection, as well as TomTom’s IQ Routes for intelligent journey planning that takes into account historic traffic patterns.
Keeping everything moving is a 500MHz ARM11 processor and 128MB of RAM, while there’s also 4GB of user-accessible storage. Battery life is estimated at around 3hrs of standalone use, though of course there’ll be a windscreen mount included too.
According to TomTom, the LIVE system is available in 33 countries so far, while the integrated modem will mean the company can remotely update the GO LIVE 1000 with new services and firmware updates. No word on pricing at this stage, but it’s expected to arrive in Europe come the summer.