How often do u use G2 NAV vs. your smartphone?

[goochylittlepig]

The bad part however is it is on a tiny phone screen which makes referencing it visually or contributing to the crowd sourcing prompts dangerous.

Google Maps has the same (and additional) traffic info. If you don't have the HUD and you do have a big phone 5"+ screen, which both apply to me, I don't see why having the phone in a dock wouldn't be just fine.

 

[Nikgen]

The bad part however is it is on a tiny phone screen which makes referencing it visually or contributing to the crowd sourcing prompts dangerous.

I run Waze with the phone in a bracket that sits in the cup holder. The voice alerts come though on Bluetooth, so you don't have to look at the phone. In addition, if you just tap the screen with 3 fingers (you can do a waving gesture too supposedly), you can then use voice prompts to add alerts yourself. No issue with having to look at the screen to use it.

 

[dirtyoldman]

While I don't have a Genesis yet, I do still use the 10 year old navigation in my current vehicle over my Note 3 unless I load up waze on the phone for alerts. Even then, I have the note 3 down low where I only hear the alerts. I use the navigation as a top-down map of my surroundings about 99% of the time and rarely use POI. If I ever moved to an area that used street names instead of a numbered grid I'm sure I'd enter in addresses much more frequently.

While traveling in some rural areas to visit friends/family earlier this year the phones became fairly useless as LTE/4G/3G service dropped out. Give me GPS plus dead reckoning and local mapping data any day.

With that said it is only a matter of time before cell phone use is prohibited in a car except android auto, Apple Car Play, etc. Until autonomous vehicles are the norm in 20+ years....