05-26-2020, 09:10 PM | #23 |
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A funny update as I just made a run to the grocery store to pick up supplies for the week including a 1.75 liter bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin given the wife and I have a happy hour of a couple Gin and Tonics to wind down our COVID-19 daily boredom. I've posted in other threads that some of my neighborhood streets use "turning circles" vs speed bumps for traffic control. As I've grown more accustom to the M850i, I'm going through them at greater speed but still cautious. However, I was pushing it today during the drive home from the grocery store up until I heard a "thunk". My initial thought was "there goes the phone" as in my newly mounted solution somehow F'd up. Nope it was just the bottle of gin in the passenger seat foot well rolling around and hitting the door panel.
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05-28-2020, 06:32 PM | #24 |
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Lucky man. If the gin bottle had smashed then I guess you would have a new drink - the 850 gin cocktail!
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05-28-2020, 07:10 PM | #25 |
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Need some pics... you may have improved on my recipe, man, so share the love.
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Thankfully, with the design of the case I didn't have to affix the plate to it so tomorrow's experiment will be to move it down from dead center and see how it holds the phone completely non-obstructing the AC vent. Right now the vent fully functions, i.e., the control to move up/down and left/right is not impacted but I'm pretty sure if I move the plate lower in the case it will hold the Pixel 3XL solidly and completely out of the way of the vent. Lastly the Bimmerpost bug of reorienting photos has struck again but at least they are not upside down. Last edited by bloozemanAZ; 05-31-2020 at 04:05 PM.. |
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05-31-2020, 09:26 PM | #27 |
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As expected, lowering the rectangular magnetic plate in the case from dead center to basically 1/3rd the way up from the bottom allows for complete isolation from the right AC vent. The photo is with the magnetic plate near dead center on the mount. Past experience is I can even move the phone up from there at least a 1/2 inch and still a solid mount.
Lastly WTF Bimmerpost with the reorientation of pictures? The shot from my work iPhone is purely portrait and displays in Apple's Photos in perfect representation. Granted unlike BMW's absolute ignorance in software competency that is a show stopper it would be nice if you guys figured out the picture aspect reorientation issue. Big love to the mods as this forum is life blood for all of us to share our experiences. |
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05-31-2020, 10:10 PM | #28 |
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Ive adopted a similar solution, but on the opposite side of the idrive, with an iClip mount. I'll post a misoriented photo of it tomorrow.
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06-01-2020, 03:37 PM | #30 |
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Here you go...
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