Now up for sale! Here’s the photos, I’ll list the spec and what’s included later…
£6000, no offers. She is worth every penny, that is for sure!
I recently acquired a HTC Flyer as for a project at work. It hasn’t been used much recently, so I thought I’d give it a new lease of life in the van. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a 7″ Android Tablet which runs the Honeycomb version of Android, version 3.2.
I’m not the biggest fan of Android, it has to be said, I favour the Apple product lineup more but this is quite a capable device, with 3G and 32Gb onboard memory, microSD card slot and a pen (which I don’t use).
I decided I wanted to mount it in the space to the right of the head unit. I had a mount for it, which once upon a time would have been mounted to the vents, albeit not particularly well, but a friend of mine inadvertently stood on one of the vent parts and broke it. The solution was to attach it to a blank switch plate. I figured, instead of screwing holes direct into the dash, the switch blank would be the lesser of 2 evils and I can always find a replacement blank if I want to remove it.
You can see here I had to make two slots and a screw hole in the plate.
dHere you can see the mounting. The screw isn’t particularly aesthetically pleasing but it’s hidden so I don’t mind. I didn’t have any suitable black screws with rounded head in the right gauge.
Here is the sticky mount.
The green sticky pads (it’s a shame they aren’t blue) are what holds the device to the mount. They are surprisingly sticky too. If they get dirty, it’s a case of simply rubbing them with a sponge and some mild detergent and they are as good as new! Quite weird!
Next I simply place the Flyer on the mount to use whenever I need to. The picture shows the Car Panel which is pretty good for navigating while keeping an eye on the black stuff. The turn-by-turn navigation is also pretty good too and I’m sure it will come in pretty handy in the future.
I might have to rethink my in-van technology when iOS6 is released in Autumn. There is new Siri integration and turn-by-turn mapping included for free, so I think I’ll be looking at ways to mount an iPad (non-permanent solution) and find a new home for the Flyer!
PL