Best combo of phone, GPS unit, comms, onboard
Discussion
What is everyone finding to be the best combination for:
1) Answering phone, making calls, consulting texts
2) Using GPS both on screen and with audio feedback
3) Listening to Spotify
4) Communicating with a second rider nearby or a pillion.
This would be on a Triumph with the possibility to the use the My Triumph app. There seems to be so many possibilities: connect phone through GPS with GPS connected to audio system, audio system with 2 Blutooth channels connected simultaneously to GPS and phone.
Any recommendations for GPS (basically TOMTOM or Garmin if I understand correctly or phone) and comms systems?
Thanks for sharing your experience.
(Any well intentioned folk who want to disuade the use of multimedia on a bike, please don't get involved, thanks)
1) Answering phone, making calls, consulting texts
2) Using GPS both on screen and with audio feedback
3) Listening to Spotify
4) Communicating with a second rider nearby or a pillion.
This would be on a Triumph with the possibility to the use the My Triumph app. There seems to be so many possibilities: connect phone through GPS with GPS connected to audio system, audio system with 2 Blutooth channels connected simultaneously to GPS and phone.
Any recommendations for GPS (basically TOMTOM or Garmin if I understand correctly or phone) and comms systems?
Thanks for sharing your experience.
(Any well intentioned folk who want to disuade the use of multimedia on a bike, please don't get involved, thanks)
You are going to be pushing s
t up a hill reading a text on a bike. While you may not want opinions on if this is a good idea or not, every time you mess with your GPS, you aren't concentrating on other things. The overhead in terms of brain power and button presses of reading a text is much larger than the overhead of picking a song or pressing a big green button to answer a phone call. Even if you manage to read the text, what are you going to do about it?
t up a hill reading a text on a bike. While you may not want opinions on if this is a good idea or not, every time you mess with your GPS, you aren't concentrating on other things. The overhead in terms of brain power and button presses of reading a text is much larger than the overhead of picking a song or pressing a big green button to answer a phone call. Even if you manage to read the text, what are you going to do about it?I've just come back from a run around the NC500 with a group of Old Gits. Four of us had Cardo PackTalk Bold units and the banter on them was constant. 
. It really makes a great trip into something memorable with your mates.
We all then had different connections for GPS etc. I run a Tomtom Rider 450 with my phone connected to that. The Tomtom manages the incoming calls etc. so that I can see who is calling and decide whether to accept or reject the call.
I have a second phone running Waze and my MP3 player (I know it's old tech but it's free and no adverts ...) Waze is for real time warnings of police/camera vans. That phone also manages the Cardo unit.
My only complaint with that set up is that the Tomtom does not offer a phone dial pad to type phone numbers in (my old Garmin 660 did) and that the Tomtom Bluetooth control of the phone signal is not as good as the old Garmin was. By that I mean phone calls are of lower sound quality when going through the Tomtom than they were when they used to go through my old Garmin 660. (Same headset, same phone so the only change was the sat nav unit.)
. It really makes a great trip into something memorable with your mates. We all then had different connections for GPS etc. I run a Tomtom Rider 450 with my phone connected to that. The Tomtom manages the incoming calls etc. so that I can see who is calling and decide whether to accept or reject the call.
I have a second phone running Waze and my MP3 player (I know it's old tech but it's free and no adverts ...) Waze is for real time warnings of police/camera vans. That phone also manages the Cardo unit.
My only complaint with that set up is that the Tomtom does not offer a phone dial pad to type phone numbers in (my old Garmin 660 did) and that the Tomtom Bluetooth control of the phone signal is not as good as the old Garmin was. By that I mean phone calls are of lower sound quality when going through the Tomtom than they were when they used to go through my old Garmin 660. (Same headset, same phone so the only change was the sat nav unit.)
Iminquarantine said:
You are going to be pushing st up a hill reading a text on a bike. While you may not want opinions on if this is a good idea or not, every time you mess with your GPS, you aren't concentrating on other things. The overhead in terms of brain power and button presses of reading a text is much larger than the overhead of picking a song or pressing a big green button to answer a phone call. Even if you manage to read the text, what are you going to do about it?
Agree completely. Text reading is something to be done when pulled over at the side of the road. Not an "in flight" activity. I won't even pick songs off a play list! Random playlists and voice commands of "Hey Cardo, next track" cover changing the music while on the move.t up a hill reading a text on a bike. While you may not want opinions on if this is a good idea or not, every time you mess with your GPS, you aren't concentrating on other things. The overhead in terms of brain power and button presses of reading a text is much larger than the overhead of picking a song or pressing a big green button to answer a phone call. Even if you manage to read the text, what are you going to do about it?Well I don’t know. I was able to read about how to receive/read text messages on my Zumo XT within a few moments of researching that topic, when I was researching what GPS to buy.
If you were to find the same info which I just re-found in only about 15 secs of looking for it, you will see that there are a few button presses when you want to read a text. Not really as simple as having a single big green button appear on the GPS screen when the phone rings. Also to use your road sign analogy- do you typically write a reply to the road sign when you see one?
If you were to find the same info which I just re-found in only about 15 secs of looking for it, you will see that there are a few button presses when you want to read a text. Not really as simple as having a single big green button appear on the GPS screen when the phone rings. Also to use your road sign analogy- do you typically write a reply to the road sign when you see one?
Iminquarantine said:
Well I don’t know. I was able to read about how to receive/read text messages on my Zumo XT within a few moments of researching that topic, when I was researching what GPS to buy.
If you were to find the same info which I just re-found in only about 15 secs of looking for it, you will see that there are a few button presses when you want to read a text. Not really as simple as having a single big green button appear on the GPS screen when the phone rings. Also to use your road sign analogy- do you typically write a reply to the road sign when you see one?
I absolutely wasn't suggesting writing text messages whilst riding. On the Triumph LCD I believe they come up automatically so thought the same for the TOMTOM. If you were to find the same info which I just re-found in only about 15 secs of looking for it, you will see that there are a few button presses when you want to read a text. Not really as simple as having a single big green button appear on the GPS screen when the phone rings. Also to use your road sign analogy- do you typically write a reply to the road sign when you see one?
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