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Naim today confirmed that the HDX app to control the Naim HDX Hard Disk Player is available from the Apple iTunes app store.

The HDX app, was designed and coded in-house by Naim’s software team.

The HDX app, which also controls the primary output of NaimNet Music Servers, was developed following customer feedback provided via Naim’s long-running and influential forum.

Naim’s HDX App allows you to control your HDX hard disk player remotely. With your music library at your fingertips, you can now sit back and take control. Browse and play any of the music stored on your HDX with the easy-to-use app.

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Pioneer: Start planning your route before stepping into your car with Pioneer’s free NavGate FEEDS iPhone application.

Use the Google Maps interface of your iPhone to find your destination and transfer it via Bluetooth for easy, turn-by-turn directions on Pioneer’s AVIC-F10BT or AVIC-F310BT NavGate systems.

Using the iPhone app, you can:

• Run a point of interest (POI) search on your iPhone using Google Maps, drop a pin at the location and then send it to your NavGate for automatic routing
• Take a photo of your current position (or even receive a photo from a friend), create geo-tag data and send it to your NavGate for automatic routing.

Any POI you send from your iPhone will be saved on the NavGate as a contact.

NavGate Feeds for iPhone is compatible with the AVIC-F10BT and AVIC-F310BT.

For more:

• Download the free iPhone application from iTunes
• Find out more about NavGate Feeds

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Electronista: NAVIGON today signaled its intent to compete against TomTom’s iPhone app with software of its own.

A version of MobileNavigator will use iPhone OS 3.0′s support of turn-by-turn GPS to provide the same driving directions as many of its dedicated GPS units, including its Reality View, lane and speed assists, and its notification of road signs.

Owners can play music from their device’s existing library, plot routes based on contacts’ addresses and auto-resume navigation after taking a call. The mapping firm doesn’t say whether it will make an accessory to support MobileNavigator, as TomTom is for its own app, but does say it will have both free and paid versions.

The free Lite version doesn’t have active navigation and only lets users search the map as well as find points of interest; paying unlocks the full feature set. NAVIGON anticipates its software arriving in the App Store in June but won’t reveal the paid version’s price until it’s available.

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NaviGadget: Two names that we keep talking about are finally together. At Apple’s WWDC TomTom’s GPS navigation application for the iPhone was announced – along with an accessory kit that charges your iPhone, includes speaker and microphone for hands free calling, and even enhances GPS reception (possibly) by providing its own GPS receiver.

TomTom GPS navigation application for iPhone will be able to provide turn-by-turn directions and of course the specially designed car kit will be able play the voice instructions through its own speakers.

We do not know how much the TomTom app will cost but we know it’ll include the latest maps.

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Electronista: TomTom may be stepping up its efforts to produce turn-by-turn iPhone GPS through a low-key recruitment effort.

A job listing for an iPhone app developer doesn’t mention the company but asks for someone to develop navigation software in Amsterdam, the location of TomTom’s headquarters.

The term would start in May or June and last for at least six months. While the possibility exists that it’s another, smaller company developing the GPS app, TomTom was one of the earliest to express an interest in iPhone GPS, confirming its attempts a month ahead of the App Store’s launch.

Worries over competition and the inherent limits of the iPhone 2.x SDK, which doesn’t support vector-based (directional) positioning and other resources needed to fully handle turn-by-turn GPS. iPhone OS 3.0 explicitly supports turn-by-turn directions.

Other major companies will potentially be involved, though Garmin is very unlikely to support the iPhone due to its alliance with ASUS on the nüvifone series of smartphones, which bring Garmin’s familiar GPS software to Linux- and Windows Mobile-based hardware.

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