Interesting, those magnetic plugs. How strong is the magnet? Between looking at those mounts. As you said. It needs a waterproof phone. But USB ports would be direct to the phone which doesn't work for me. The magnetic port would suit Sony to these mounts well if it's strong enough.

The other thing with this mount is that there is no isolation from vibration.

I'm not sure on overheating. Didn't have that at 30C in sunny Baja in a black case riding first and second gear single and double trail. I covered it when standing still though. Never felt hot.

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I just bought some ram stuff and put my full size iPad straight into the cockpit of my KTM. It's waterproofed and whatnot. Have an app with read-out of everything from altitude to speed, and there's also a GPS map thingy. When bored I can switch to telly. Heck, there's even an app for roadbooks! Haven't tried the set-up in really heavy terrain when doing the shake-down test, but I will soon.

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Do you pop it into your pocket when the bike is parked somewhere in public?
(it looks pretty vulnerable).

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I just bring it along when leaving the bike. Not exactly pocket friendly, but it works.

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Start with a normal GPS, I would recommend a motor-oriented GPS: rugged, waterproof, for normal naviation (my LM390 has hit stone-pavement with 80km/h, still working, hehehe).

I dislike the small screen, I dislike the lack of "overview" in general and the l dislike the slow-slow-slow repsonse to finger-commands.

So.. for map-reading, I mostly carry a 7Inch Tablet (I lost my first google-nexus on the Transfagarasan in 2014... Stupid). The tablets tend to be slow as well, but at least they offer a better overview for map-reading (OSM, maps.me, and maps.google.com if on-the-net).

Screen-size not ideal for map-reading yet, but Larger then 7inch is hard to stow away in the tank-case.

In addition to that, I have now dedicated an old-phone, a GS3, to "tracking": it runs ramblr and myadventure.bike to record my whereabouts and allows me to easily record a map+logbook (separate thread). I also use that old phone as additional camera and for OSM maps.me reading (but the screen is too small for that, hence the tablet!). Last but not least, that old phone, with cheapo simcard is my emergency-backup in case the main phone gets lost or damaged.

For true-map-reading, I also still carry paper maps, but less and less.

For planning, I tend to do my rough layout using paper and laptop and then program a few via-points into the Garmin. Plus some pen-on-paper-notes (city-names, road nrs) under the plastic of the tank-case.

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Wow. That's quite a bit of redundancy. Some would say the Garmin is somewhat redundant.

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Grinning right at you...

The Garmin is the only device I will use while actually Riding.
it is water-resistant (hell it survived an 80km/h drop on brick/stone road), and it is the only device I use to navigate streets/roads.
All the other devices are either for
map-reading (tablet) or
track-recording and route-logbook (old phone with myadventure.bike + ramblr).
And then there is my actual "phone" or making calls and doing messaging.

A recorded trip of 4 weeks looks like this:

OUG tour spring 2016

this took me close to zero effort: recording is automatic, any picture on Flicr is auto-inserted into the trip, and text can go in via phone or via web-page. And the web-page is "up" from day one so my friends can follow me, and I can brag and show it to ppl I meet on the road.
Anyone with a computer+internet can find you instantly via google myadventure-dot-bike, then T R I P S -slash- one three seven -enter-.
Like I said: a Great Brag or conversation-starter (you just came down from Helsinki???)

All other systems require me to tweak and figet to put route + picure + notes together..
MyAdv is "instant-ride-report". not perfect yet, but a good help for a lazy person like me.

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