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Originally Posted by noel di pietro
Tablets and smart phones do not work in hot environments with much direct sunlight. Mounted on the handlebars or put in the transparent tank bag holder they over heat verry quickly and shut down. Seen it happen many times whereas my "BS Garmin" product (276C) performed normal in temperatures up to 48 degress. No problems at all, months after months after months after......Actually I'm leaving again in a couple of days with my crappy 10 year old Garming GPS. Nothing beats a Garmin.
Noel
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Had no problems with my Galaxy S3, encased in a water proof box ,, all through the summer of 2012 ,, doing Siberia ,, celsus 45 or more in the box ,,
Had music blaring out of my water proof speakers, while riding long boring 14 - 16 hour days,, thunder storm over the Urals ,, no problem.
In the evening ,, flipped out my phone, for the news ,, downloaded movies ,, used it to find hotels and motels, hospitals,,police box,,libraries,, museums,, kiosks for cigaretts ,,opera houses ,, watched TED ,, listened to BBC news ,, talked to friends and family via Kakao Talk for free ,, did EMs ,, web search ,,, sent pictures and video files via Kakao.
Kept my eye on one and only one ,, my Galaxy.
No need to keep the eyes on both phone and garmin,, which gets to be left on the bike some times.
Looking at the screen was no problem ,, for you can adjust the brightness,, but who looks at the screen while riding a bike ,, you listen to the directions.
Took two garmins as a test run against the Galaxy ,, smashed them both with my boot heels and binned them at the front of the Hotel Turist, in Omsk ,, Russian doorman and security guy thought I was mad.
Got sick of recalculating ,, recalculating ,, recalculating ,,