How do you have your smartphone (or sat nav) on display?

[A900ss]

I use an iphone for my sat nav/speed camera notification (it's bluetoothed to the stereo so I do hear it!) but I don't like it having off the windscreen.

Has anybody got any innovative ways of securing the phone/nav to the dash or centre console?

Thanks

[zed4]

Yep, I'll see if I can get a photo later. I have a nice sturdy phone holder with a small suction cup. I fit the suction cup to the right of the small gauges on the wooden dashboard. Just behind the indicator stalk. The arm on the phone holder is long enough to hold the phone further left, just out of the way of the steering wheel and indicator stalk. It does cover up on elf the gauges, think it's the clock.

[fog66]

Brodit phone holder/charger. I took the dash top off and made a bracket for the back which screws to the top of the bottom dash section. Solid as a rock and I always know where my phone is now.

[A900ss]

fog66 said:

Brodit phone holder/charger. I took the dash top off and made a bracket for the back which screws to the top of the bottom dash section. Solid as a rock and I always know where my phone is now.

Ooh. That's nice (and reversible if needed).

[Goaty Bill]

A900ss said:

fog66 said:

Brodit phone holder/charger. I took the dash top off and made a bracket for the back which screws to the top of the bottom dash section. Solid as a rock and I always know where my phone is now.

Ooh. That's nice (and reversible if needed).

I was expecting some real abominations when I saw this thread
Well done Phil. It isn't pretty (no offence), but it is never going to be pretty, it is functional and as Karl notes; it's reversible.

I think everyone else can forgo now

[keith2.2]

Mine gets wedged in front of the heater controls!

[fog66]

Goaty Bill said:

I was expecting some real abominations when I saw this thread
Well done Phil. It isn't pretty (no offence), but it is never going to be pretty, it is functional and as Karl notes; it's reversible.

I think everyone else can forgo now

How very dare you, not pretty indeed! When the phone is in you don't really notice the bracket (thankfully).

[Goaty Bill]

fog66 said:

Goaty Bill said:

I was expecting some real abominations when I saw this thread
Well done Phil. It isn't pretty (no offence), but it is never going to be pretty, it is functional and as Karl notes; it's reversible.

I think everyone else can forgo now

How very dare you, not pretty indeed! When the phone is in you don't really notice the bracket (thankfully).

Most humble apologies.
How about: It's less ugly than just about anything else that I might have imagined?

My bluetooth headset talks to me to say who is calling, so my phone can stay in my pocket or in the console pocket.
But that mounting would make a lot of sense for a satnav, without fooking messing up the interior completely.

I still use the "real man's" satnav; i.e. drive around lost (not asking anyone for directions) until I stumble upon my location (when I am lucky).
I have had some of my best (okay, and some of my worst) trips in the car that way

[fog66]

Goaty Bill said:

Most humble apologies.
How about: It's less ugly than just about anything else that I might have imagined?

You should go into politics.

[Discopotatoes]

A900ss said:

I use an iphone for my sat nav/speed camera notification (it's bluetoothed to the stereo so I do hear it!) but I don't like it having off the windscreen.

Has anybody got any innovative ways of securing the phone/nav to the dash or centre console?

Thanks

This is the best solution I've found by far

[Andy_mr2sc]

Which iPhone is that? I'm loving that idea. Who makes it?

[Discopotatoes]

It's made by oxygen o car and I believe its only for the 3 4 and 4s but I'm sure they will update for the 5 and 6 at some point