I can't imagine that the magnet in the Touchstone is strong enough to hold onto the Pre when going over bumps, potholes, etc. Pre owners, what say you? I'd hate to have my phone fall off and be underfoot or underpedal. #palmtouchstonecarmount
@Chimaera: Actually, works fine for me. The only time it ever falls off is if my hand accidentally knocks it off. But it has taken the abuse of my crazy driving! To be honest, it's the ONLY reason I haven't bothered thinking about getting another phone. Voice turn by turn GPS with Pandora with a wireless charging setup is bliss, IMHO.
@Chimaera: Touchstone is a lot stronger than you'd imagine. I know a couple of people on the precentral forums that use this set up. #palmtouchstonecarmount
@Chimaera: You'd have to hit a seriously rough patch of road to shake the Pre off of the touchstone. Those magnets are not at all weak. #palmtouchstonecarmount
@Chimaera: I have a pre and, although I cannot say I have the touchstone in my car. I have tried using it horizontally and vertically on my wall and it works wonders. It really does take some force that a bump or sharp turn can't really produce. Picking it up is easy because you are actually grabbing the phone but sliding off from a turn or bump would have to be reeeeeally rough in order for that to happen. #palmtouchstonecarmount
@Fractal the Meek: i've taken the touchstone with the phone on it and shaken it around (above my bed, of course) and it does take quite the force to knock it off.
i think he'll be fine for going around corners and whatnot, but as for bumps... well maybe the angle of the touchstone will take the force of any bumps rather than the phone sliding off. #palmtouchstonecarmount
@Fractal the Meek: already i use bluetooth to car stereo (CARKIT) in order to listen to pandora on the ride home, and man that is SOOO much beter than FM radio, in terms of content. Quality, OTOH, is lacking.
i have envisioned getting rid of the stereo all together in favor of a bluetooth - audio adapter (hopefully with telephony capability) - speaker & sub amp and then using the phone as the UI.
Take it a step further, and get rid of pandora all together, instead use Last.FM's api to do playlist generation and song recomendations, but build a app that uses mp3s from your own library at home and streams em to your pc. if last.fm reccomends a song you dont have, give the user an option to find it on itunes, or amazon, or elsewhere.
its a pandora for your own music collection without the limits imposed by pandora (song skipping, no requests, etc)
@walker2151: You DON'T. You SIT THERE, and listen to the ENTIRE DAMN THING in ONE SITTING. That's right, you damn kids got it too spoiled these days, with your "next" button and your "fast forward" and whatnot. In my day, we had to switch to Side B on our Lenny Kravitz cassettes, dammit! When we were walking uphill 15 miles in the snow and... #carcdrom
@bzr: Do you remember how fantastic it was when a good song would line up with another good song on opposite sides of the cassette, so like you could listen to the song on Side A, flip the cassette (or auto reverse if you were ballin' cept we didn't say ballin' we said "phat" I think, I dunno, it was a long time ago, possibly "da bomb") but you'd flip that shit to Side B, and maybe have to rewind or fastforward just a little bit to hear the other good song on the album... yah, it was money. Cds changed things, but napster... wow how the times have changed. I used to have to listen to the same stupid cassette for like a month until I saved enough to buy another damn cassette... you kids these days. #carcdrom
Seeing as my Insight was free, I like it. I love the steering (teeny turn radius). Also, the key to driving a hybrid is, believe it or not, jamming on the gas to quickly accelerate. It's why the Insight has an electric assist motor.
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Its a good idea, but bumps, potholes aint a good idea with this thing magnetically latch to that touchstone. #palmtouchstonecarmount
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This guy's mounted at a steeper angle than most. Can't imagine it holds well. #palmtouchstonecarmount
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i think he'll be fine for going around corners and whatnot, but as for bumps... well maybe the angle of the touchstone will take the force of any bumps rather than the phone sliding off. #palmtouchstonecarmount
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i have envisioned getting rid of the stereo all together in favor of a bluetooth - audio adapter (hopefully with telephony capability) - speaker & sub amp and then using the phone as the UI.
Take it a step further, and get rid of pandora all together, instead use Last.FM's api to do playlist generation and song recomendations, but build a app that uses mp3s from your own library at home and streams em to your pc. if last.fm reccomends a song you dont have, give the user an option to find it on itunes, or amazon, or elsewhere.
its a pandora for your own music collection without the limits imposed by pandora (song skipping, no requests, etc)
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