Electronics » Smartphone in the Nav-cradle. End of BMW Nav ?

This will probably be the end for the Navigator when you can use your smartphone in the Nav-cradle.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDVlfSP_byk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=odfIbhG65Q8

You could be right.

As the Navigator VI is $1,000 USD (retail) and is of questionable quality (I'm on my 4th unit), there is little incentive for people to buy THEIR GPS unit compared to using their phones.

It seems to be 'accepted wisdom' that the Nav VI was going to be the last model to be produced, this news does tie in with that.

I've seen a few aftermarket attempts at providing a smartphone mount to fit the BMW cradle, I've never seem an official BMW version of this - and I can't believe they'd be plugging this solution if they were also be hoping to develop the Navigator.

I wonder what they'll want for it? I bought a used Navigator V a while back. I'm reasonably happy with it but if I could use my phone with the wheel I'd probably go that route. Phone GPS programs are much better at helping you avoid traffic jams.

https://www.webbikeworld.com/connectedri...artphone-mount/

Another article about it but no price.

Zitat von Davidnapo im Beitrag #5

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I wonder what they'll want for it? .

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Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #3

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As the Navigator VI is $1,000 USD (retail) and is of questionable quality (I'm on my 4th unit), there is little incentive for people to buy THEIR GPS unit compared to using their phones.

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Zitat von Davidnapo im Beitrag #5

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I wonder what they'll want for it? I bought a used Navigator V a while back. I'm reasonably happy with it but if I could use my phone with the wheel I'd probably go that route. Phone GPS programs are much better at helping you avoid traffic jams.


Another article about it but no price.

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Hmmm. I wouldn't say they addressed vibration. I'd say they skirted the issue.

Bear in mind that the OEM BMW nav cradle on the RS is already isolated from the steering head by means of rubber bushes. My feeling is that phone destroying vibes are mostly the result of clamping a phone mount directly to a handlebar without any damping. That would be asking for trouble. Give BMW credit, I believe they’ve thought it out. The problem has been around a while and I’m sure the powers that be at BMW are aware.

I have a WunderLINQ which mounts to the cradle in the same way as the new BMW phone cradle. The WunderLINQ has one half of a magnetic mount, the other half is on the back of a regular cell phone case. I have an iPhone 8 plus. I've read that IPhone cameras as particularly susceptible to vibration damage, but mine has thus far survived at least 10000 kms without problems on my old R1200RS and my new R1250RS. I'd be perfectly confident using the new BMW phone cradle. In my case the new mount would be mostly redundant seeing as I already have the WunderLINQ, but it sure is tempting because of it's nice integration with the BMW app. I use an excellent app called Scenic with the WunderLINQ, which BTW also provides integration with the left handlebar wheel, but charges the phone via USB cable from the WunderLINQ, so no convenient wireless charging.

Blimey they've gone to the trouble of making this a BMW addition but not added wireless charging.

Zitat von Bunter im Beitrag #12

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Blimey they've gone to the trouble of making this a BMW addition but not added wireless charging.

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Zitat von Bikepirate im Beitrag #7

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My Navigator V has just failed and I'm in touch with Garmin to see what can be done. The problem is, I quite like the Navigator and the functions so difficult to know what to do.

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No my bad, not paying attention.