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Set up your phone as a car dashboard

Setting up a phone as a car dashboard means mounting it in landscape, powering it, and running a dashboard app that shows speed, time, maps and music at a glance. These guides cover the setup step by step, using the phone as a speedometer, and reusing an old phone or tablet.

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How to turn your phone into a car dashboard

A step-by-step setup: choosing and placing a mount, keeping the phone powered and cool, and setting up a dashboard app before you drive.

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How to use your phone as a speedometer

Your phone can show your true speed from GPS, often more accurately than the car's dial. How it works, where it fails, and how to set one up so you can read it in a glance.

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Modernizing an older car with a phone dashboard and OBD-II

How to give a car with no screen maps, a clear speedometer and live engine data using a phone, a mount and a cheap OBD-II adapter. What works, what to buy, and the catches.

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Using an old Android tablet as a car dashboard

A spare tablet makes a bigger, easier-to-read car dashboard than a phone, but only if it has GPS, a data connection and a mount that can hold it. How to check and set one up.

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