Where do you put your phone when you're driving without using one of these things? They're ugly but I use maps and Spotify frequently and I need to stop using my phone while I'm driving.
Where do you put your phone when you're driving without using one of these things?
use one of these magnet based mounts instead of that clunky piece of shit.
my s22 ultra has yet to dismount itself from aggressive street driving with 480hp.
So do you like have a case with a magnet or have it glued on the back?
it comes with a flat magnet you stick on the back of your case
I wedge the magnet between my case and phone
holy shit all of you are moronic. the only thing with an actual magnet in it is the mount. the disc/plate that you stick on your phone/case is just s piece of ferritic steel.
The magnet is a POS because you have to glue the steel plate to your phone, and the glue ends up melting in the sun anyway.
only time I look at my phone when driving is to use the GPS, so I just put it in front of my gauges
I use a magnet based one that goes on the vent and it looks pretty good.
I use the linkmount stuff.
nice saab
>They're ugly but I use maps
Imagine not being able to memorize a route before you drive.
>t. lives in some bumpkin town with 3 roads.
Try navigating an actual city and tell me some audio directions will get the job done. I can't tell where I'm supposed to go half the time when staring straight at the map because there are so many roads/exits meeting in the same place. I can't even find the road sign half the time so audio directions wouldn't help at all.
>"Turn right at S HWY 625 N West Street Avenue"
>"WHAT THE FRICK THERE'S LIKE 6 PLACES I CAN TURN AND I CAN'T SEE SIGNS FOR ANY OF THEM!?"
inb4 "don't live in the city"
I want to make more than $30k a year, Cletus.
>Try navigating an actual city and tell me some audio directions will get the job done. I can't tell where I'm supposed to go half the time when staring straight at the map because there are so many roads/exits meeting in the same place. I can't even find the road sign half the time so audio directions wouldn't help at all.
I navigate Budapest that way.
Lived half my life in cities, never needed to look at a map while driving. Fricking learn to memorize a route before you drive. I've never even used navigation to get my self anywhere.
I could but half the reason I use maps is to avoid the constant road closures and traffic I structions in my city.
You lived in TOWNS, son.
Didn't know L.A. was a town.
>I only ever went to the same 3 places
Your experience is irrelevant.
Also, if I know the general area already, yeah, I don't need GPS, but if I'm vacationing or going to a part of town I don't know, frick yes I'm using GPS. Shit, half the time I miss my turn because while I'm looking for the road sign the impatient frick behind me is about to rear end me.
I drove for a living for many of those years in LA, and it was before GPS was common. Learn to fricking read a map and memorize the city layout and finding your way around is easy. Quit using GPS as a crutch
>quit doing things the easy way
ok (not going to really)
>son
why are you trying to sound like a boomer when the poster you're talking to is obviously older than you? only zoomers rely on GPS, boomers were using paper maps and road atlases until the mid 2000s
Boomers where I live rely heavily on GPS, but then they keep cursing at the GPS and saying it's shit and useless even though in 50% of the time they're using it wrong and their problems come from not knowing which buttons to press.
>Boomers where I live rely heavily on GPS, but then they keep cursing at the GPS and saying it's shit and useless
My dad always buys some old GPS devices with outdated maps then complains how it led him to the wrong spot or didn't know about the turn.
I Use android phone with maps cleared of data so it loads up to the minute maps. Look up nearby gas stations, shows another state the phone hasnt been to. Look up clinic for piss test to get a job
Gps directs me to a mcdonalds on the other side of the strip mall
Still gives bad directions, quicker to figure it out
>boomers were using paper maps and road atlases until the mid 2000s
Implying that I don't still use those. Oh sure I'll ask the thing for a route but I'll double check it against an atlas to make sure it doesn't do stupid shit like pic related.
>He doesn't own an amphibious vehicle
Pleb
Considering how much construction goes on these days. I wouldn't trust a paper map outside of which major highway to take
La, sandy eggo, sanfranshithole, las vegas, poorland, reno, seattle. Hardly use gps. When I use gps its frequently wrong. Learn how to think. Rats can navigate a maze, are you not as smart as a rat?
>Be a man, drive around in circles for half an hour instead of just driving straight there
Woo, it's big brain time!
>he doesn't know
In the land of Billy Bobs making 35k a year, the man who makes 60k is king.
Yeah, but then all of your neighbors are Billy Bobs. Though, I can understand the argument that the flood of Poos and low IQs into major cities is quickly deflating that argument. My main gripe with small towns is there's just nothing to fricking do.
I was a delivery guy in the seattle area for years without a gps. I have tried GPS to avoid traffic, but it usually told me to take the same route I would normally take which is fricking annoying. Sometimes it tells you to drive through warehouses and other shit that seems like a bad idea, or it sends you on wild goose chase. Its even worse out in the country, it tells you to turn off of forest service roads and drive through private property which warns about tresspassers will be shot, or abandoned roads and then you lose signal.
Zoomers are permanantly moronic cause phones fricked over your sense of navigation, social skills etc. You will never just know how to find your way around.
If phone networks go out ill have a few days of withdrawl, but then my iq will go back up 40 points within the year.
>Seattle """Area"""
>Some rural town of 5,000 people
homie...I...
You cannot just find some random side street in a city of a million+ without GPS. You may not look at it turn by turn, but I guarantee you will need some kind of mapping service at least for the last mile. Sure, you can MapQuest it like a Boomer with a flip phone, but what are you really doing at that point? And, yes, you can find it on a map if you want to spend 20 minutes combing around until you see it like a navigational Where's Waldo. People pre-GPS used to have a set of directions for people to come from a main road/highway, people don't do that nowadays. It was always "Turn off Highway 1 at the Johnsonville exit, take the 2nd right, then the 1st left, go down until you see a blue house, that's me" Nobody has those canned directions because everyone is just going to GPS it and likely get a faster route.
No dipshit, seattle area means the entire area including everett, seattle, tacoma, bellevue, kent, renton, airport etc. I had to use a box van to deliver shit, so illegal uturns were out of the question. and I just had the address and out of date maps.
There used to be a training period where the salesman would introduce me to some customers and so fourth tho, so I only had to find 50 or 60 stores on my own
So...basically....
They paid me $12 per hour, so I couldnt afford a gps unit or to take the fastest possible route. I didnt just drive in circles, I took different routes every day instead of picking the "best" routes and again, when the company finally got around to buying a gps unit, it told me to drive exactly my normal route or through buildings, on train tracks, wrong way on 1 way streets and land somewhere other than the customer. My android phone was also pretty bad at navigation. In sfo, gps blanks out every time you get to a tricky spot and directions will be delayed till after you got through it. Idk if apple phones have gps or if people are so fricking moronic that going in circuitous routes and landing a block away is preferable.
I've never had this much trouble with a GPS in my life, you are a special kind of moronic, son.
Can confirm Seattle anon's story. In HS I was a delivery driver in Houston and never used a GPS. If I was taking multiple orders I'd just jot down a few of the more obscure street names on the receipt and never had any issues.
Zoomers really are hopeless
I can triple confirm. I worked as and then managed delivery drivers in Texas, California, and the midwest in the pre-GPS era. This included semi-fixed routes (each driver serviced ~200 locations every two weeks) and random routes ("delivery items to these three customers who ordered today"). For the random routes, a driver would often need to consult a map before leaving, and there might be some paper maps in the truck if a driver gets really lost, but, for the most part, people just learned how to get around.
It's not like these were the most professional, super experience delivery drivers either. The place I worked in California had a deal with the state to hire people right out of prison. I can't imagine how dense zoomers are if they can't navigate without a phone.
t. smooth brain that has never read a map
the smallest city I've ever lived in was 600k and my phone lives in my pocket while driving (or in the console when connected to an audio jack/charger). I look up where I need to be, and just get there. don't assume everyone lives in some shithole because you have no sense of direction
People navigated spaghetti streets for a hundred years without gps you zoomer moron.
a hundred years ago streets didn't look like this
At least the main roads are a grid. I've been a lot of places where all the roads look like the squiggles in the middle of the main roads. There's no sensible way to find where you need to go in that, period.
Jesus Christ Zoomers are moronic, it couldn't be easier. Just figure out how to get to the block you need to go and count how many streets until the one you need to turn on.
Ex. If you need to go from Sprouts to the Sunland Village Golf Club.
Right on Gilbert Rd
Left on Broadway
Right on Greenfield
1st Right halfway down the block
first right, follow through 90 degree turn
straight to golf course
It's that fricking simple.
>1st Right halfway down the block
*1st Left halfway down the block
you already fricked up you dumb homosexual and you had the fricking map in front of you. Now do that with memorization smartass
>Now do that with memorization smartass
I've been doing it for years dumbass it's not hard and I caught the mistake right after posting.
You're just a useless homosexual who literally couldn't find your way out of a wet paper bag. And I thought people were moronic when it came to land nav in the army, I can't imagine how bad it is nowadays.
>>"Turn right at S HWY 625 N West Street Avenue"
America
Much better than “Oi turn left at dead white guy street (left cause wrong side of the toad blimey)”
In the cubbyhole behind the shifter because I don't keep my shit frickered up like a packrat
I use one of those that goes into the CD Player slot. I don't care if "iT's UgLy" (what are you, a woman?), it puts the phone where I want it and is sturdy enough to not fall off. Vents are too fragile for a phone+battery case like I use and suction cups always fail when it gets too hot or cold.
>suction cups always fail when it gets too hot or cold.
Bought one from a dollar store and it never failed me
Just keep it in your pocket. Turn on audio directions if you doubt your ability to memorize your route.
Cup holder, the charger angles the phone perfectly so I can view it if I need to.
Best thing about the interior is I have a place to watch my soaps
>automatic
IN MY POCKET.
OK boomer
In the glovebox moron, aka phonebox.
in the gloveboz or centre console
anyone who uses a phone while driving needs their license revoked
Between the seat cushions or on the passenger seat, because I bought a CarPlay compatible head unit
Highly recommend
on the dashboard of course
I literally only use audio directions via Bluetooth.
I'm not addicted to cell phones like a moron.
I'm not a zoomer, when I drive I don't need my phone.
Checked and blessed. If you can't drive by references, you don't belong on the road. You're a danger to everybody when you look at your phone/tablet when driving.
i have one that slots into a cd-player-slot.
it works well for my car, since the multimedia-shit and screen is separated and who the frick uses cds anymore. i can remove it if i want to update the maps.
>he doesnt have carplay
It is such a life changer
Before that I used something similar to pic rel. Nothing compares to magnetic holders
I use this style. My dashboard is curved, and I have to put the suction cup a bit further back, so the telescopic arm is nice. The phone holder releases via spring pressure with a button behind it, and clams manually. Some holders do the inverse (spring-assisted clamping, release with two side sliders you have to push in) but I find they don't clamp that good.
My car has a matched Eibach spring/Bilstein B8 damper set and is quite hard, magnetic and gravity-style holders are not that secure.
my headunit has carplay so I don't have to use any ugly phone mounts
>not having a screen and apple CarPlay or android auto
lol
>people still arguing about navigating a city
you use Waze to avoid traffick jams
in my pocket because my bluetooth lets me do everything, including texting, from the center screen
I just plug in my phone and use CarPlay. Then put the phone in the center console. Simple as