Vain owners with integrated looking 3rd party navigation ideas wanted.

That's an interesting demographic; the vain but poor people. :madgrin:

 

Paper maps are cheap. Portable, low-power, and most have readily available updates.

 

I use the gps in my nokia cell phone. Although it does sit in a proclip centre mount that you might find ugly.... i added a bracket to that to hold my scanguage, which i suppose is also ugly.

 

Sorry Robin, but you're looking for a pie-in-the-sky. Anything that'll integrate is going to be pricey. But you don't have to have anything that mounts permanently. Many of the units have things like beanbags that you can set on the dash. I don't see how that works though--wouldn't short stops fling it off the dash regardless? I have a round black plastic disc that is fixed to the dash just above the MFD that the suction cup for my Garmin unit attaches to. It's a very minor permanent installation. There's nowhere on the dash itself that is flat enough for the suction cup to adhere to, and, even if it wasn't illegal in California to attach the suction cup to the windshield, the rake of the windshield makes that impractical (for me, anyway--I'm 5' tall and can't reach that far--do not know if someone with longer arms could deal with it.) Either yes, go with paper maps (thanks, Hyo--but these are not practical in all situations either--like when a geographically and visually challenged person--couldn't SEE the print on the AAA triptiks even if I could have handled them without anyone else in the car--takes a cross-country solo drive--remember when I did that? Would NOT have been possible without GPS), or get a dash/window mountable one that is completely removable and good for taking in other cars--even when those other cars are at the other end of a plane trip--VERY handy in new places!

How much is your vanity worth?

 

if you have verizon cell service. VZ nav works. just need cable to plug into aux port and a way to mount phone so you can see it.

mine has a sticky thing on the back of the phone that prevents it from sliding. works great. in fact, to show it off, i can set it on the slanted part of the dash on the 06 and drive around without it falling off.

i have a flip phone (eNV Touch) that opens like check book, i leave it open so the face is towards my eye level on 2010 (open SPM i used to use the storage beneath the CD player. was a perfect fit for the phone AND my i pod)