Dash/window mounted GPS

Why not just use your smart phone or a Samsung Tablet either of which you can get dash mounts. Both the phone and tablets can be loaded up with you favourite navigation app.

External GPS


Alloffroad memory maps

Why not look at the HX 2+

I use an 8 inch tablet with GPS and exploroz maps. Works for me.

Hi Dunc. Source a second hand 8" Samsung from Cash Converters or similar, download OziEx for Android from Des Newman Ozi, 'borrow' some maps from people you know, and plonk the tablet on a RAM windscreen mount. About $400-500 all up - no way I'd go Hema - too many very ordinary reviews for my liking. Alternatively you could install EO Traveller but you'd be limited to the EO map alone. Cheers. JB.

I've been looking at Samsung rugged devices. Not too crazy expensive. I wonder if their heat tolerance is better than regular tablets and phones? I've never read any work or play reports about them. My only experience was from work where the techs used Panasonic rugged PC's for servicing and downloading from instruments.

$369 for unit includes mount - from Sydney local dealer full Android plus CarPlay - Smartworld App2Car Display

I use a 10 inch samsung tablet. I have it mounted so the top is just level with the top of the dash. I,ve found the lower mounted units require more time off the road and generally only an 8 inch screen. The samsung like all phones and tablets do not like direct sunlight as they get far too hot and the battery will swell and potentially explode. I have a cover over the top.Mine is in a Pajero and fits well with my home made bracket. My original Hema unit I found as too small and it crapped itself after 15 months anyway...hence the move to samsung tablet.

Samsung tablets have survived 11 years of full-time travel in our motorhome.
Current version is a Samsung A9 plus.

Edit: Velcro attached to glovebox.

Original 10.5" tablet

Honestly who would trust Hema again after their dismal performance in making their products supportable and reliable in the past few years? Get yourself a nice Tablet and mounting solution for it and run ExplorOz Traveller.

I've only ever bought one Hema Navigator, an HX1 back in 2017. It has been replaced twice, once free of charge & once for a $90 refurb fee (but was a complete new unit).

The latter, the refurbed one, I've been using since 2021. The Hema online catastrophe was/is irrelevant to me as I never used it.

What to do when it inevitably dies one day. I'm not sure. Currently my wife & I still prefer to use it in conjunction with a dash mounted ipad & Exploroz Traveller, but EOT has some small idiosynchrasies (just as all GPS navigators have - none are perfect.... are they? ) which means I don't wish to rely on EOT alone.

Oziexplorer is not Mac friendly so if I were to go that way (& there are good reasons to do so) I would have to get a Windows computer, (with associated learning curve) something I swore many years ago I would never do. There is no software for Mac to enable maps to be converted for Oziexplorer use that I am aware of.

So when my HX1 dies, I will face a dilemma in what to replace it with. Like many, the Hema shenanigans have not helped my trust in their product, & I still feel miffed about an update to the old Hema 4x4 app several years ago when they removed some of the useful larger scale maps.

Has anyone tried the (somewhat expensive) Garmin option? ie 'Tread' or 'Tread Overland'?

Ummmmm - thanks Allan. :D