I used to use TomTom on the iPhone 4 and it was ok.  As stated above I'd suggest trying it, if the screen is ok size wise but you feel you need a better solution I'd recommend the TomTom app on the phone with a decent active mount rather than buying an additional unit.

I'll be travelling every week for work, 99% of the time to an area I don't know.

 

Also, I don't like big phones so I've got an iPhone 5S, which is great as a phone but a little small as a Satnav?

 

I', not sure how it works, but Navmii has a HUD option (paid), so somehow it alters the display to project the image onto your windscreen; so the image can be as big as you want.

HUD images look a bit ropey. I suppose it would depend on your screen/dash as to how well it would work.

 

They are selling a HUD glass adapter thing for phone navigation apps but imho by the time you've bought an app and a hud screen you might as well have bought a satnav.

 

 

Prob a decent phone holder would make more sense if being less shiny.

HUD images look a bit ropey. I suppose it would depend on your screen/dash as to how well it would work.

They are selling a HUD glass adapter thing for phone navigation apps but imho by the time you've bought an app and a hud screen you might as well have bought a satnav.

Prob a decent phone holder would make more sense if being less shiny.

I've driven a Mazda 6 with the pop up hud which is a more built in version of this and I have a hud on the X3 which projects onto the windscreen directly.

Have to admit I wasn't sold on the huds until test drive the BMW system. The pop up wasn't bad but not brilliant, as you say I'd suggest a decent phone mount.

Edited 21 November, 20169 yr by gullyg

I've driven a Mazda 6 with the pop up hud which is a more built in version of this and I have a hud on the X3 which projects onto the windscreen directly.

Have to admit I wasn't sold on the huds until test drive the BMW system. The pop up wasn't bad but not brilliant, as you say I'd suggest a decent phone mount.

 

I test drove a Mazda 3 with it and I wasn't overly impressed. But it was only doing speed and it was tiny.

I got fed up with sky high call charges and went with 3 on a Nokia Lumia, and took advice from folks on here to download HERE MAPS.Now I've got maps on my phone with no download as it's all on phone. Not great as the screen size isn't big, but on something with a large screen it would be a lot better than a sat nav. All I've got to do now is to teach my technophobe SIT NAG how to use it.

Google Maps and Here (formerly from Nokia, now owned by a consortium of German auto manufacturers) are free and can pre-install maps. A difference is that pre-installing maps for Here is easier and better organized. You can pre-install named areas, for instance, such as a state. With Google, you can pre-install an area around your specified destination but not a named area. And the pre-installed area disappears after 30 days or so.

 

Regards, Antero

Google Maps and Here (formerly from Nokia, now owned by a consortium of German auto manufacturers) are free and can pre-install maps. A difference is that pre-installing maps for Here is easier and better organized. You can pre-install named areas, for instance, such as a state. With Google, you can pre-install an area around your specified destination but not a named area. And the pre-installed area disappears after 30 days or so.

Regards, Antero

You can define your own offline area in Google maps. I have approx 1/4 of the UK.

I sometimes use both sat-nav and phone. Tom-tom and Waze. I find tom-tom useful for speed cameras especially average speed ones and lane layout on motorways. Waze is great for live traffic updates. I have never run out of data even with my 250Mb limit.

I always take a good back up too, an A-Z map.