[MartyV6]

OP why do you need a cellphone holder just curious. What I've found on my new Pilot is that now that I can wirelessly connect to Android Auto I am not really needing to "see" my phone anymore so I can just set it on the console near the wireless charger

 

[MartyV6]

I have a company iPhone and get text messages, teams messages, and emails from work 24/7. I have to be able to quickly glance at who the sender is and if it's someone of importance, pull over, and respond to whatever IT emergency is happening. In my old vehicle, I had a Ram Mount screwed into the dashboard so my phone was always at eye level right below the rear view mirror so I could easily see the phone screen without taking my eyes off the road.

The Bluetooth connection between the car and my phone doesn't show any messages/notifications. The salesman said I had to use Carplay for that but I haven't really played with Carplay before. I don't know if the notifications will appear on the screen or be read to me if I'm not using the Smartphone Projection app on the infotainment. I don't have a USBc lightning cable so I can't really test how wired carplay + Bluetooth works until I order one.

Got it

On my new Pilot and Android Auto any text I get on my phone shows up in the upper corner and I can click on it or have the system read it to me too. All this tech is new to me as I haven't bought a new car in 9 years

 

[MartyV6]

Everything I found online that could work was for a device with a much wider screen so I couldn't go glass as I have no way to cut it. The infotainment screen is 12" wide but only 4.75" tall. That's why I had to find screen protectors for a 14" device because the diagonal measurements may have been 14" but it was only about 12.5" wide. I had to cut it almost in half for it not to be too tall.

Pardon my ignorance, but these are glass displays or a type of plastic?

If glass, query why you are so worried they will get scratched up? This isn't a smartphone where it is thrown into the wife's purse to rub against keys, or to be dropped, or in your pocket with some grains of sand from the beach in there to scratch it.

 

[MartyV6]

After 2 days there were so many fingerprints on the screen it was driving me crazy. The car just attracts fingerprints. Every gloss black surface, full of dust and fingerprints. The gloss black frames around the windows on the outside, full of fingerprints from passengers shutting the doors. I'm hoping a screen protector does a better job at not picking up the fingerprints on the screen as I was tired of having to wipe it down every day. I know I need to get used to using my voice and the steering wheel controls but it's going to take me a while for that. I still take my damn keys out my pocket every time I approach the car to hit the door unlocks and to put the key in the ignition but I've only had it 9 days so far.

Makes sense. Those screen protectors could have oleophobic coatings. Does it affect the touch sensitivity of the screen at all?