{"id":5382,"date":"2024-06-22T11:17:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T10:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/?p=5382"},"modified":"2024-06-22T11:17:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T10:17:58","slug":"dmd-t-865-shall-i-keep-it-or-ditch-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/dmd-t-865-shall-i-keep-it-or-ditch-it\/","title":{"rendered":"DMD T-865: shall I keep it or ditch it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having now taken the DMD tablet on two or three trips, I&#8217;ve made some progress with it but I find there are still some serious problems with using it that amount to deal breakers for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First the positives: I&#8217;ve worked out how to turn up the volume and assign a button to that so I have been able to hear the turn by turn instructions from Google Maps and DMD &#8211; when riding at slow speed at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve worked out how to tether my iPhone to the DMD so now have a live connection that allows Google maps and Myrouteapp to work properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With stick on fingertips on my gloves the touchscreen works pretty well most of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are all major problems solved. But there are still some unsolved issues that make me consider deinstalling this outfit and putting it up for sale:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 The screen is not very bright &#8211; nothing like the Garmin Zumo XT and I can&#8217;t understand why people say that it is. See the picture. DMD is set to 100% brightness. It is pretty much unusable when the light shines directly on it, in even dull sunlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. The link to the iPhone keeps dropping out and is long-winded to reestablish involving two separate set up screens &#8211; certainly too involved to do safely while riding. And when there is a poor mobile signal, there is no GPS mapping &#8211; at least on the Google maps app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DMD-Zumo-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DMD-Zumo-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DMD-Zumo-2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DMD-Zumo-2-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DMD-Zumo-2-480x360.jpg 480w, http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DMD-Zumo-2-333x250.jpg 333w, http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DMD-Zumo-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. The DMD app map seems to have centred itself in a large blue ocean somewhere and does not seem to auto centre on where I am. Again, this would take time to sort out &#8211; involving stopping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. When using it, the map does not seem to keep where you are updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pros still are: I can just take one device on journeys that I can use as a Kindle, for internet browsing and blog updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having now taken the DMD tablet on two or three trips, I&#8217;ve made some progress with it but I find there are still some serious problems with using it that amount to deal breakers for me. First the positives: I&#8217;ve worked out how to turn up the volume and assign a button to that so&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/biking\/dmd-t-865-shall-i-keep-it-or-ditch-it\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DMD T-865: shall I keep it or ditch it?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,27],"tags":[234,82,102,235,141],"class_list":["post-5382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-equipment-review","category-travel","tag-dmd-t-865","tag-gps","tag-motorcycle","tag-tablet","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5398,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions\/5398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}