RV FEATURE
CarMount is probably the smallest and lowest profile device holder on the market .
At the time of writing this article , CarMount was available from the manufacturer for $ 35 . It pays to do a Google shopping search as I found the same kit from MyDeal for half the retail price .
The CarMount may not be suitable for every application so I encourage you to look around to find something that works for you and your vehicle .
TALLY THE COSTS
Now let ’ s have a look at the all-up costs for this system :
Lenovo 7in Notepad |
$ 100 |
32Gb SD memory card |
$ 15 |
HERE WeGo Maps |
Free |
OziExplorer |
$ 45 |
Geoscience Topographic maps |
Included with OziExplorer |
Offline HERE WeGo maps |
Free |
CarMount |
$ 18 |
Total $ 178
I imagine at this point there will be a few readers thinking I didn ’ t save a lot of money over the repair costs for my old navigator and , while that may be true to some extent , consider that I now own all the software , maps and supplementary hardware for the notepad . If it should suffer the same fate as my original system , I just have to buy a new notepad . Everything else is transferable .
I could have reduced the cost even further if I wanted to . Instead of purchasing a new notepad , I could have used an old Android phone that I had lying around . I could also have avoided needing the memory card and just downloaded maps for one state at a time and relied on the unit ’ s internal memory .
I could have continued to use the trial version of OziExplorer although the limitation would have impacted the usefulness of the system . These would have reduced the all-up cost to just the cost of a CarMount !
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