Nook Color (or any 7" Tablet) as Nav for 2010 Prius

very nice, well done! it doesn't seem to hide anything you need to get at either.

 

i've had my galaxy tab 7 inch with cheap $5 case with velcro to the dash since couple days after i've bought the carin 2011 may.
i've upgrade the aux to bluetooth using belkin air cast.
bt audio streaming is the same as the putting wire using cable from my MOSTER CABLE BEATS STUDIO headphones.
no ground noise also. now...
i have upgraded my tab to a nexus 7.
using poweramp android app i can use finger swipe to go to next track and the sound is a lil better do to some eq settings.
also it automatically plays the music when i power on the car because it starts playing when it connects to the bluetooth.
i have the screen always on when charging so i dont have to wake the tab everytime i want to use it.
when i turn off the car, then screen shuts off in 10 sec and bluetooth disconnects instantly so the music stops.
OF course i have my galaxy nexus with verizon and unlimited data.
i'm tethering when i'm using the maps and watching youtube videos.
i love it.
when i leave the car i can just take the tab out from the case or just rip off the velcro and take the tab with the case on

 

belkin air cast ($60) or new potato for android ($100) will both work. i just wanted to try one and local frys had them stocked so i wentwith belkin and i love them. i dont know about new potato. try keeping ur unlimited data and buy ur self a gNEX LTE or gNOTE2 thats coming out next month. nexus is good for it's updates and devs @ xda. too many roms to try. i ditched my OG droid and promised myself i would never touch another MOTO products ever again.

 

they are solid but heavy also. locked bootloader is a no no... always root and rom. after using the amoled u cant really go back to washed out lcd's. i even hate my ASUS NEXUS 7 720p LCD screen because of the color is washed out. contrast sucks and colors dont pop. not vivid enough. only way i would ever buy a MOTO again is when google makes a NEXUS with them. but probably not gonna happen or i've heard that google is trying to let most of companies to make ASOP phones. people hate samsung and their "plastic", but IMHO plastic is way to go. weight and durability. hell i changed my battery door to a white one for like $8. if u buy flagship samsung phone such as Galaxy S3 or Galaxy Nexus or Note, u wont have problem with DEVs working on the ROM. i was on 4.1.2 jellybean since last week (the same day google posted up the source codes). and if u go ICS and JELLYBEAN u will be amazed how smooth android have become. i've used all versions of iphones (inclusing the 5), all versions of ipads, all versions of galaxies, and some of the adroid tabs. now i am using galaxy nexus and nexus 7. i will probably switch to gNOTE2 as soon as it comes out.

 

i used to love the physical keyboards, but when using a 4.65 inch phone u wont really need 'em anymore. note2 is really promising. i've tried the iphone5 for 2 days and hated it nothing really changed. it actually got worse with the stupid maps and the screen res is ideal now but not for now because it was so new. and the fricken auto correct keyboard and the small nice person keyboard. the screen stretched but keyboard was the same size. i sold it for like 800 to a isheep and im happy. they make me try all the apple products and ican sell it for top $$

 

my gf dropped my original galaxy tab 7 inch and i ordered the part in the ebay and fixed it last year for like $50
if u drop any phone face down... screen will crack most likely..

 

Okay, I have a question...

I have the stock navi unit but it drives me crazy. So I wanted to replace it with Galaxy Tab 2 7". Seems it would bee pretty involved to take it out and do all the rewiring so I think I'll look into just doing something like this. It really doesn't look too bad and I think the benefits outweigh having it not be flush. So...

1. Will the velcro come off clean - with some effort of course - if you want ot resell the car? I was looking into a phone mount earlier and it had some double sided heavy duty tape that was supposed to come off clean if you wanted to remove it. If I wanted to use that I guess I could find a case the Tab could snap into in the car and leave that case in the car and just pull the Tab out.

2. That Belkin aircast thing... did you only need that because the car didn't have bluetooth? Mine has it, I can't see a reason I would need it... I can use BT for my phone calls without issue and for streaming audio - well not on the ROM I'm currently on but there's supposed to be a fix for that. Right now I just use an aux cable for playing audio off my phone.

Really want to get this going... I'm so sick of the navi lock, the FM static and the songs changing when trying to browse music while it's playing. Ugh. Really poor design.

Oh and for the record, my HTC Rezound LCD screen is gorgeous! I wouldn't want an s-amoled screen after this beauty. I LOVE this phone.
And for a kb, try Swype if you haven't. It's amazing. I could never go back to using my thumbs again. Ever.

 

How bout this