TomTom has a good reputation as manufacturer of navigation software and hardware. Tomtom started making navigation software for organisers and smartphones, and Palm was one of the first manufacturers you could run the application on. When Tomtom started making their own hardware, they managed to make it behave exactly the same way as the software versions from before. And it has always been the easo of the menus, the smart structure and the added features that made people love tomtoms. And now it seems Tomtom is working on something new : a gps enable smartphone.

Notably, Hewlett-Packard (HP), other branded handset vendors such as O2 and i-mate, and the two leading GPS devices vendors, TomTom and Garmin, are likely soon to launch their own-brand GPS PDA smartphones, the sources revealed. (Digitimes)

I wonder if this will do any good in the cell phone market. At the same time, it is interesting news. Maybe Tomtom prefers selling their own hardware for support purposes ?

Is Tomtom leaving it’s roots ?