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Navdy looks neat, but I have a hard time believing that $799 is the right price point for something that competes with a $20 cell phone holder... Perhaps I'll
by fra 10y ago
Navdy looks neat, but I have a hard time believing that $799 is the right price point for something that competes with a $20 cell phone holder...
Perhaps I'll eat my word :).
- hx87 10y agoLet's see: no weird angles, no distortion, no phones sliding around the dash, no having to run shoddily made apps with backwards displays...there are plenty of reasons for the $799 price.
- gwbas1c 10y agoDo you work for Navdy? I paid about $500 for an after market stereo with a phone holder and professional installation, so I'm clearly your target market. $800 for something like this is waaaay too high, and this is coming from someone who actually paid good money for a similar low-tech solution.
- robhu 10y agoSurely this is different, as the display is transparent which your phone (which hopefully isn't in the centre of your view) isn't.
- zminjie 10y agoChinese knockoffs are already in full speed at a much lower price. One of my friends saw an exact Navdy knockoff called Carrobot in China selling for only $400. Supposedly it worked pretty well and was already shipping back in February.
- exhilaration 10y agoA Google search of Carrobot turns up this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLNC6ey82E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLNC6ey82E and this indiegogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/carrobot-the-world-s-most-powerful-car-display#/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/carrobot-the-world-s-most... I'm surprised that Navdy hasn't at least shut down their indiegogo presence.
- agumonkey 10y agoThe price is high, but it's still non mainstream tech and also, IMO - I'm no expert, a life changing advantage compared to anything else. Even a large phone nicely placed will be more distracting than a semi transparent overlay right in your field of view. It allows to keep binocular focus on the road. Any time I have to aim anywhere I lose track of what happens on the road, I also lose sense of depth, peripheral vision isn't build for that. I want to find a way to have a HUD asap. Actually I dreamt about making one in a different way last week and I'm a bit jealous right now.
- dyim 10y agoPeople are weird when it comes to buying car addons :) . Look at how much these 5-series upgrades cost: http://www.bmwusa.com/standard/content/byo/byohome.aspx?namodelcode=165B http://www.bmwusa.com/standard/content/byo/byohome.aspx?namo... . I drive an '04 Civic, so it's all moot for me... but I'd guess that people are willing to pay ~$800 for the aesthetics of a HUD vs. the kind of phone mount you see in an UberX. Although who knows!
- smacktoward 10y agoSeems like the place to sell something like this would be through the car dealers, rather than direct to consumers. $799 seems like a lot when you're paying for it up front, but it'd be a much less daunting "just $X more per monthly payment!" number when it's just one more thing getting rolled into the already-large amount you're financing...
- olyjohn 10y agoWhen you can roll it into your car loan, it doesn't seem that expensive. Cash out of pocket hurts all at once.