Askitee and others, there seems to be some confusion about how a specialist GPS app purchased to run on a smartphone works. As Flamewinger has mentioned several times, you do not need ANY phone tower signal to run the GPS app on your smart phone. It runs purely from satellite, using the inbuilt satellite antennae. You never lose GPS signal unless the Russians or Chinese take out satellites. The only thing losing your phone signal from the towers does, is limit your ability to get current traffic issues and weather, but you continue to receive your route guidance.
A smart phone, mounted where your current gps (say, a Garmin XT) usually sits, will provide you with every service the XT provides, and more. The new phones are submersible to 5 metres or so for quite some time, so they are fully waterproof. The screen is large and brilliant, and easily seen in daylight. The app is constantly updated with new maps (automatically if required). If I had my iPhone 14 before I purchased the XT, I would not have needed to buy the XT. That is not denigrating the XT, which I love, but I could have saved my money. Plus, also as Flamewinger mentions, you can put the smart phone in your glovebox and use the BRP Go joystick to control everything. I was not a fan of BRP Go, and still don’t use it, but they have developed it to the point where it is functioning quite well, and reliably.
Askitee, as an aside, you are running a ‘17 RT-L, which is a different spec from the ‘20+ model that Slice and I are running. As such, it has a different charging capacity to the ‘20+ models glovebox charger that is used for BRP Go. The ‘20+ model glovebox charger is severely limited as BRP don’t want it used as a simple charging station. From Slice’s comment, it looks like Apple may have reduced the battery draw of its new larger iPhone 14 models……but there is no way the ‘20+ glovebox charger would charge the number of devices that your ‘17 RT does. It’s comparing apples to oranges.
Pete
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