Following the launch of its turn-by-turn navigation app for iPhone, Magellan has released its Premium Car Kit for iPhone and iPod Touch. The Premium Car Kit features an amplified speaker for spoken directions, a Bluetooth speakerphone for hands-free calling, a built-in GPS receiver that should improve positioning over the iPhone 3G's and add positioning to first-gen iPhones and the iPod Touch.
The kit will give users somewhere to mount their iPhones while driving, rotate to portrait and landscape orientations, and charge the device while moving from point A to B. Essentially, it will behave exactly like TomTom's Car Kit, which we've previously reviewed, but with an adjusting arm that will allow the Magellan kit to accommodate an iPhone or iPod Touch with a protective case.
The Magellan Premium Car Kit will retail for $129.99. When TomTom's kit debuted for slightly less than that price, it was universally regarded as too expensive, so we can already guess what sort of reception Magellan's kit will get.
Magellan's Premium Car Kit for iPhone is available now for pre-order.