Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:00:32 -0400
Reply-To: Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
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From: Mike <mbucchino@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Dashmount options for smartphones?
In-Reply-To: <1307835169.24064.37.camel@TheJackUbuntuNetbook>
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If your phone will auto-rotate the display (like my Samsung Galaxy S does),
I'd rotate it 90 degrees so you don't block the warning lights on the center
of the instrument cluster.
Particularly the oil warning light!
Mike B.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rocket J Squirrel
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:32 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Dashmount options for smartphones?
Hokee dokee, all good ideas, everyone.
Here's what I ended up doing:
<https://picasaweb.google.com/j.michael.elliott/IPhoneMount?authkey=Gv1sRgCJyXwMuQ17iBmAE&feat=directlink>
(or)
<http://goo.gl/jehbS>
It's one of the two car mounts for the iPhone that my Verizon store
sells. It came with a long arm on it: dash-mount with sticky back, ball,
socket, arm, socket, ball, cradle. A little contemplation revealed that
the arm part was not needed. So pulled it, resulting in a cradle that
sits almost atop the instrument panel, far enough away from the steering
wheel that it won't interfere. It says here.
The coilcord charger cable puts more pull on the bottom of the phone
than I like. I reckon I can find a car charger without so much coil to
its cord.
I'm rather pleased!
-- Jack "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 12:34 -0700, Angus Gordon wrote:
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> <https://picasaweb.google.com/birdworks/IPhoneDock?feat=directlink>
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> Angus Gordon
> 206-289-0560
> Bainbridge Island WA
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> www.wordless.me
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> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Rocket J Squirrel
> <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
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> (...in my case, specifically a brand new swell iPhone running
> the
> excellent MotionX GPS outdoor activity app.)
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> So I got this new iPhone and have been holding up in various
> locations
> on the dash, trying to find a good spot to mount it.
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> Up by the mirror is in too much glare. Over down by the
> radio/vent
> controls is not really in line of sight.
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> Over to the left of the steering wheel, it's blocked by my
> left steering
> hand and partially blocks the already puny amount of air that
> comes out
> the upper dash (not knee) vent.
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> One really swell spot would be atop the steering column --
> allowing for
> room under the phone for the charger plug, the phone still
> doesn't block
> the warning lights.
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> So a really squatty iPhone dock would be nice there.
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> But before I start what might be a long and possibly fruitless
> quest for
> an imaginary dock, has anyone else found a
> easy-to-see-but-doesn't-block-anything place to mount a
> smartphone? I
> need to mount mine in portrait, not landscape, orientation as
> that is
> how the GPS/mapping apps draw the screen.
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> Rocky J Squirrel (Jack Elliott)
> '84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> '74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano,
> Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
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