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"HUD" Head up display i phone app - BOOSST - 20-09-2018
Not long home and knackered, but while driving to and from work I tried both I Phone HUD apps.
First the Dashboard free app. Very clear and easy to see speed, direction etc Uncluttered and uncomplicated and as already pointed out, nice touch that colours can be changed to suit
Second, the A Smart HUD app for 59p. Has ALL the bells and whistles, speed, distance, time , weather alerts galore for speed cameras etc etc However... it means the display is cluttered, not clear and by the time you have looked for the little bit of info you wanted,... you have already crashed :blink: So, as cool as its gadgets are, could only say it is fantatsic for speed camera alerts, so worth having if you needed that on occasions. Mind you, when it goes off, not saying there is a lot of sounds, but add a base beat and you have just got the next big clubbing track
Out of the two, for sheer simplicity and been so easy to read, it has to be the free dashboard app for me :thumbup1:
"HUD" Head up display i phone app - parthiban - 21-09-2018
So how do these work? Just stick your phone on the dash and it reflects off the windscreen?
"HUD" Head up display i phone app - BOOSST - 21-09-2018
parthiban So how do these work? Just stick your phone on the dash and it reflects off the windscreen?
Thats it in a nutshell
here are a couple of You Tube vids I found...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ2gBmQXwnM&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB4ItuVnJD0
"HUD" Head up display i phone app - Carpediem - 21-09-2018
I fail to see the point in this,
presumeably when you get a text or phonecall you have to reach forward whilst driving and sort it out again
and you already have a speedo, why have another one obsturcting your view?
then theres the faffing around to keep it in one place
bit of a fail imho
"HUD" Head up display i phone app - Dark Samurai - 21-09-2018
James, good as it shines onto your screen, meaning you dont have to look down.
and woohooo my free app won!
"HUD" Head up display i phone app - parthiban - 21-09-2018
Carpediem presumeably when you get a text or phonecall you have to reach forward whilst driving and sort it out again
and you already have a speedo, why have another one obsturcting your view?
Errr, when you get a text you shouldn't really be reading it and phonecalls should be handled by some handsfree device.........:Fish:
Seriously though the advantages of a headup display are that you don't need to look down - key information is always in your line of sight.
As for securing the phone I'm sure some kind of magnetic phone holder should work fine
"HUD" Head up display i phone app - Carpediem - 22-09-2018
parthiban Errr, when you get a text you shouldn't really be reading it and phonecalls should be handled by some handsfree device.........:Fish:
Seriously though the advantages of a headup display are that you don't need to look down - key information is always in your line of sight.
As for securing the phone I'm sure some kind of magnetic phone holder should work fine
what i meant was the phonecall/text will close or over shine on the app, rendering it useless until you reach forward and clsoe the text off etc,
"HUD" Head up display i phone app - parthiban - 22-09-2018
Carpediem what i meant was the phonecall/text will close or over shine on the app, rendering it useless until you reach forward and clsoe the text off etc,
Oh sorry mate, my bad :Chair:
Either way that's only a few seconds of losing the screen though, and on android anyway texts don't even pop up on screen, just in the status bar at the top.
"HUD" Head up display i phone app - Carpediem - 22-09-2018
haha thats cool,
i probably dislike it because i ahte anything in my line of site,
i even hate having anything hanging from the r/view mirror :lol:
i need to see where im going with as little distraction as possible :thumbup1:
"HUD" Head up display i phone app - parthiban - 22-09-2018
Carpediem haha thats cool,
i probably dislike it because i ahte anything in my line of site,
i even hate having anything hanging from the r/view mirror :lol:
i need to see where im going with as little distraction as possible :thumbup1:
I agree with that but have you ever tried a car with a proper HUD? It really is brilliant, it's not distracting at all and so useful, especially when it also gives you stuff like satnav directions
It's at the bottom of the screen so not directly in your line of sight, it's just below it.