I designed my own Motorcycle Smartphone holder to fit a big rugged phone inside it.
Some years ago, I was travelling with a TomTom rider 400. But shame on them, this device have been created with some serious engineering issue : The battery die after 4~5 years and it's impossible to source it. Tomtom is also unable to change it. I was loving the windering roads feature that help you travel while escaping from big cities and highways, but since yet I used a smartphone to navigate again and not a standalone GPS device. I was hoping to find a smartphone capable of being charged while riding, rain proof, hot proof. If you want to use a normal smartphone on hot days, you can easily get some troubles with the phone overheating. I chose the Blackview BL6000 pro which is a large rugged phone that I also covered by a Silicon case. I bought it to use Osmand for Dual roads (off-road + street). Wasn't happy with aftermarket products to hold it on my bike, so I did my own ! This article is the engineering story of the creation, depicting the creation process in a diy poi...