pagluy
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King03 asked me to take some pics of how I mounted my iphone and he liked em so I figured I'd post for anyone else to see.
The cradle for the phone I got at Best Buy. It's a nice cradle, it sticks out a little bit and swivels on a ball that can be tightened down with a nut, so you can get it out of the way pretty good, and it's an awesome spot over there. The attachment with the nut/swivel ball also lets you tilt it to the side for wide screen goodness.
I don't have pics, but if your radio is out, you can look inside the radio area to the left and see holes/gaps you can feed the wire through.
I fed it down the side of the console, and then across the bottom, under the steering column area, to the side of the dash that you can only see when your door is open. You will see two pieces of plastic coming together, that seam there pries back a little so you can feed the wire up it and to the mounted holder.
I haven't done anything fancier yet because I eventually plan on getting a charger/line out connector for the iphone, but still having one wire come up to the charger is pretty clean.
The best part about this setup too is that if you tilt it back just a bit so the mic on the iphone somewhat points to you, you can totally answer the phone and talk without it leaving the holder. I tested it with some friends and they said it sounded no worse than a speaker phone and that I sounded perfectly clear. And the phone call plays through the car speakers of course.
The main flaw with this current setup is that there is no charger. This doesn't bother me so much as I never drive for too long at once (an hour tops) so the battery is not an issue. I eventually plan on doing a charger though, and my plan for that is to buy a cigarette power adapter from radio shack and finding some power lines underneath the dash to tap into near where the mount is.
Total cost was $65 for the PIE adapter (bought from a certified reseller on ebay, pie website is overpriced), $6 for an RCA to headphone connector cable, and $20 for the mount. Took about an hour total to rig it all up.
I should also mention that when the 3.0 version of the iphone software comes out in June it is bringing turn-by-turn GPS to it, as a free upgrade to the current maps program. That's when this little setup will get really sweet I think.
The cradle for the phone I got at Best Buy. It's a nice cradle, it sticks out a little bit and swivels on a ball that can be tightened down with a nut, so you can get it out of the way pretty good, and it's an awesome spot over there. The attachment with the nut/swivel ball also lets you tilt it to the side for wide screen goodness.
I don't have pics, but if your radio is out, you can look inside the radio area to the left and see holes/gaps you can feed the wire through.
I fed it down the side of the console, and then across the bottom, under the steering column area, to the side of the dash that you can only see when your door is open. You will see two pieces of plastic coming together, that seam there pries back a little so you can feed the wire up it and to the mounted holder.
I haven't done anything fancier yet because I eventually plan on getting a charger/line out connector for the iphone, but still having one wire come up to the charger is pretty clean.
The best part about this setup too is that if you tilt it back just a bit so the mic on the iphone somewhat points to you, you can totally answer the phone and talk without it leaving the holder. I tested it with some friends and they said it sounded no worse than a speaker phone and that I sounded perfectly clear. And the phone call plays through the car speakers of course.
The main flaw with this current setup is that there is no charger. This doesn't bother me so much as I never drive for too long at once (an hour tops) so the battery is not an issue. I eventually plan on doing a charger though, and my plan for that is to buy a cigarette power adapter from radio shack and finding some power lines underneath the dash to tap into near where the mount is.
Total cost was $65 for the PIE adapter (bought from a certified reseller on ebay, pie website is overpriced), $6 for an RCA to headphone connector cable, and $20 for the mount. Took about an hour total to rig it all up.
I should also mention that when the 3.0 version of the iphone software comes out in June it is bringing turn-by-turn GPS to it, as a free upgrade to the current maps program. That's when this little setup will get really sweet I think.
