I’m not a fan of window car mounts. At all. The first time that I tried it was with a (then) new Garmin Nuvi 760 that I had bought and what had happened day one? It fell down to the car floor and got scratched. Since then I’ve been using Garmin’s Friction Mount to keep my Nuvi on my dashboard.

Since I’ve got my Droid, I had pondering the switch to using Google Navigation and one thing that was important to me was the car mount. Motorola’s car mount for the Droid is a window mount, and the last thing that I wanted was to have the mount dropping to the floor and having my beloved Droid scratched. Initially, I was going to try to come up with a rig to use my existing Garmin friction mount, but it turns out that there’s no rigging required!

Garmin’s dashboard mount hooks up to the Nuvi through a regular old ball and socket. I thought that it would be a problem since out of the box, the window car mount for the Nuvi consists mainly of two parts — the physical mount itself and the frame that attaches the Droid to the mount.

Motorola Droid car mount parts out of the box (excluding the mounting disc)

As it turns out that the Droid car mount also uses a ball and socket design. I was unscrewed the part of the assembly that attaches to the its socket, then I attached it directly to the Droid frame.

This frame can now subsequently be attached to Garmin’s Friction Mount easily. The screw that comes with the Droid’s frame helps in securely attaching it to the assembly, just as it does with the Droid’s mount.

Thank you Google for the free navigation! Thank you Garmin for the dashboard mount!

• a Discrete Structures exam
• an Embedded Systems exam
• a laboratory demonstration I need to present on modulus counter timers
• submitting design phase artifacts for my Software Engineering class, which includes the design specification and a prototype

I believe that for the most part, I have this week under control so long as I carefully manage my time correctly. But, I will post closer to the end of this week once things are done and out of the way on some more (big) updates on graduate school, job searches, and also a little thing that I happened to get my hands on today — Droid.

More updates to come later!