With a large touchscreen, running "SYNC by Microsoft", the MyFord Touch software is generally regarded as pretty poor with a litany of upgrades breaking or removing functionality, and long promised items - such as the "AppLink" available on the non-Touch system - being undelivered.
However, it does have one nice feature: you can provide your own 800x384 pixel wallpaper for the home screen. Googling turned up a few nice ones, but none provided the look I wanted. So, an evening spent with the GIMP produced:
Which, in place, looks really effective:
The phone is mounted using a Mountek nGroove Snap and Google Nexus charger, and is running 6 LCARS (available for both Android and iOS) in this screenshot, though it tends to be running Ulysses Speedometer and Google Maps when actually moving.
This is really cool! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteFollowing on from this - for the benefit of Google - the 2015 Lexus IS 250 (and presumably, 350) with the non-nav (non-navigation) Lexus Display Audio (LDA) has a 7" display with a resolution of 800x480.
ReplyDeleteMuch experimentation with different sized image grids to find that!