New phone mount accessory from BMW

[Grumpy Goat]

Looks like Apple is still saying no to mounting a iPhone on a bike.

https://jalopnik.com/bmw-and-apple-cant-...1848085738

With the new phone mount it looks like another reason to not expect a Nav VII in the future.

I agree that this is the way that BMW Motorrad will be going in the future and have effectively killed off the BMW Navigator. If people insist on getting a dedicated Garmin unit and can forego the integration with the jog wheel then there is the more cost effective $500 Garmin Zumo XT. But they probably recognize that many people mainly want jog wheel integration and telemetrics so this cradle, which can work with a wide range of phones, solves the issue and removes Garmin from the picture.

I just would like to definitively see how owners with the GPS Preparation that we have on our bikes would be able to say swap out the Navigator Cradle and swap in this new cradle. The articles are not clear on whether this can be done on non-TFT bikes with GPS Preparation.

As for the vibration - I am not surprised that Apple is taking that approach to head off any claims by people that the motorcycle broke their phones. They are placing the onus on the phone mount manufacturer to make that guarantee, and given the model coverage to include non-Apple phones, I would bet that BMW Motorrad would also not make such a guarantee. Even Quadlock does not make that guarantee, although its vibration dampener appears to do the job perfectly.