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greggy100
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 Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:42 am Post subject: iPhone car holder |
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This looks promising although I've used Google Maps to get me home and apart from the gps lag and the fact that I've no stand to put it in (and the screensaver keeps coming on....)
But a while ago I came across a sort of strap thingy that would allow me to strap my iPhone to my stering wheel (I think). Then when you're using
Has anyone come across this? Know where I can get one from?
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Darren
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Can't imagine a more dangerous place for any device than the steering wheel. Most vehicles have airbags fitted there, crash and you will have an iPhone fired into your face at a few hundred miles an hour!
There are many cradles for iPhone that affix to the windscreen or dash, a much better solution.
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Why won't Apple allow turn by turn navigation on the iPhone?
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| Skippy wrote: | | Why won't Apple allow turn by turn navigation on the iPhone? |
That's the million dollar question, nobody knows and Apple aren't saying.
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| Darren wrote: | | Skippy wrote: | | Why won't Apple allow turn by turn navigation on the iPhone? |
That's the million dollar question, nobody knows and Apple aren't saying. |
See my earlier post - it just won't work unless they allow more apps to run in the background, and that means all those apps have to be well behaved and not hog resources. The downside of the Windows Mobile approach is that you do need to go into the 'task manager' equivalent every so often and nail a few apps that have started hogging things; having them all close every time you switch away from them, as the iphone does, has to help in avoiding running out of resources - but if you use the iphone for a number of days without a sync or restart, it becomes noticeably more sluggish, so it's still not a perfect solution. (sync appears to reset everything, even iPod) |
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Darren
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| Martin-R wrote: | | See my earlier post - it just won't work unless they allow more apps to run in the background, |
I appreciate the issues with iPhone not multi-tasking but it doesn't stop it working. I don't have any need for the phone side when I'm driving. It's perfectly possible for it to be designed to suspend when a call comes in and to retain programmed route info etc when re-launched. Not ideal but for millions of users it will I suspect be more than acceptable until such time as multi-tasking is implemented properly.
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