Small victories
I have an iTrip-like dongle in my car that plugs into my phone and my cigarette lighter to play my phone on t'wireless. This means I can listen to music and (more importantly) audiobooks on my way to work, when I'm not in the mood for Radio 4 (or the occasional burst of Radio 2).
The current dongle I have worked well enough, but became increasingly wobbly over time - any nudge could disconnect the cable enough to stop it broadcasting and, because of the way it works, also stop the audio. So nudging it back in would have to be accompanied by poking the phone to play again. Easy enough to do when, say, waiting at traffic lights, less so when you have 40 miles of motorway ahead of you. Having it on the passenger seat, it easily disconnected. On my knee, it easily disconnected. So I'd mostly stopped using it. The cable wasn't long enough to reach the plastic in front of the windscreen, and I didn't really want to buy a replacement when I'm thinking of changing my phone, because the connector wouldn't fit. (I'm on an old iPhone at the moment.)
What hadn't occured to me until last night was that the cable would reach the dashboard (instrument panel bit), and the phone will fit snugly under the temperature gauge. And it seems mercifully wobble-free! So pick an album or book, slot phone into place, then drive off.
Minor hurrah.
The current dongle I have worked well enough, but became increasingly wobbly over time - any nudge could disconnect the cable enough to stop it broadcasting and, because of the way it works, also stop the audio. So nudging it back in would have to be accompanied by poking the phone to play again. Easy enough to do when, say, waiting at traffic lights, less so when you have 40 miles of motorway ahead of you. Having it on the passenger seat, it easily disconnected. On my knee, it easily disconnected. So I'd mostly stopped using it. The cable wasn't long enough to reach the plastic in front of the windscreen, and I didn't really want to buy a replacement when I'm thinking of changing my phone, because the connector wouldn't fit. (I'm on an old iPhone at the moment.)
What hadn't occured to me until last night was that the cable would reach the dashboard (instrument panel bit), and the phone will fit snugly under the temperature gauge. And it seems mercifully wobble-free! So pick an album or book, slot phone into place, then drive off.
Minor hurrah.