Holding phone in car

Bob, I have one similar, not sure if it would work for you but it’s redundant now.  Used it in my 2012 Swift a few times, never budged or let my phone slip once even though it’s a bit of monster.

Yours if you want it.

I agree about distraction but used as a satnav/traffic monitor the phone can me used in-car safely in my opinion. I generally use Google Maps overlaid with TomTom Speed Carmeras, and the phone itself connects to the in-car stereo via bluetooth. I have the Shouter app enabled, which reads out notifications and if needs be you can pull over to respond. I’m in total agreement about the ****heads driving while checking facebook etc – but the phone does serve a purpose if used properly – and mounting it securely helps that.

As an aside I always use an air-vent mount, find it less distracting (lower height), leaves no marks and never comes loose.

I send text via voice. It’s recognition is better than my spelling anyhow.

Most of the time it’s just yes or not to a text, if I need more I’ll usually   just say ”OK google, call [person].

EE in all their wisdom, decided to set call and data baring on my phone, and my phone alone. yesterday. Made it hard to contact them given I could call or get online.

Luckily we had 3 other phones that wasn’t bared. So I could hot spot my phone form their for my sat nav, and Tom Tom app.

Spent about an hour this morning on The super quick 3mb Internet I have! In the end the only way to contact ee was via Facebook messenger. And to my suprise it was a great experience. And they sorted it with in 5 mins of my initial text.

blacklion1725 wrote:

I generally use Google Maps overlaid with TomTom Speed Carmeras, and the phone itself connects to the in-car stereo via bluetooth.

I’ve just come back from a cousin’s wedding and have been trying to integrate Android Auto, which it did in the 18 plate loan car that I used. The only problem was that AA needed a phone connection to update map/progress and when it did that it obliterated TT Speed Cameras from the phone screen and just displayed Google Maps  ( or the option of Waze ) on the integrated car screen and an Android Auto “label screen on the phone.

How do you set up Google Maps “overlaid” with TT Speed Cameras??

Edit – I’ve got it overlaid on the phone screen, but AA just takes over the in-car screen. Was that what you meant, or did you get TTSC onto the car’s screen too??

Jcd  all I do is launch he TT app, then there is a small menu botton right, select the minimise option. That give you the overlay of your speed and the actual limit. Then open your mapping option of choice.

Works a treat. If Google just implemented it in maps there would be no need to run two apps. There is no reason they dont as their other say nav Waze has it. I just prefer the way Google maps sets out its lane info  better than any of the others. It’s clear at a glance. The others seem to to an extra second to get the info across. Not good when coming off/on to motorways.

JCD, i’ll give the TomTom speed camera app a whirl on Android Auto tomorrow, see how it works in my car.

I suspected that would be the case PM – thanks for trying for me.

They’re missing out as TTSC is my go to driving app – the one that I always want working – it’s accurate, simple to read/use, includes your average speed through the average speed camera’d sections of roads/motorways, gives accurate information about the length of the traffic jam you’re sitting in etc, etc, it just keeps on performing.

Having said that, I did like the integration of Android Auto into the in car display along with the option of Google Maps or Waze. I preferred GM because it already had a lot of my contacts, destinations etc, from where I check things out on the PC.

Edit – that’s moot at the moment, as I’ve now got my car back along with a very big bill this time around!! I will be bearing what app works well with what display as I’m looking to PX it next March/April when the new reg’s come out and there are a lot of 2 or 3 year old trade-ins around.