Using an Android Rugged Phone for Motorcycle Navigation and GPS (Throw away your Garmin!)

This is a quick overview of how I am using an Umidigi Bison GT Android rugged phone as my primary motorcycle GPS. These are only $250 on ebay and have amazing buid quality compared to normal cell phone store phones.

I have been using my daily driver flagship phones (Samsung) as my primary navigation device for on and off road for years but it was just beating up nice phones from riding off road and in bad weather and they don't work with gloves on.

I have always had a Garmin GPS of some sort as a backup on the bike but the Garmin software is clunky and slow and awkward to use. I can't stand Basecamp and trying to build a route on the device itself is a terrible experience. There are much better software options these days for mobile devices.

I am using a variety of android apps to make this work. Anyone with moderate skill can set up a similar device quickly.

Gaia GPS is my primary navigation software. I also use Avenza maps, Osmand+, MyRouteApp, and Google Maps.

The launcher app I built the interface with is called Square Home. It's very customizable and it'll blow your balls off.