Sat Nav on Your Mobile , Is it Legal ?

As part of my neanderthal blokey up-bringing I always thought ... 1- Real men don't eat quiche and 2- Real men don't use sat-nav. I could look at a map and memorise a route in two minutes. But times have changed , following a complete M6 closure at Lancaster - my little mobile sat nav app ( Waze as used by Uber drivers ) guided me through the traffic hell hole of Lancaster and back onto the M6. The route used every backstreet and rat run known to man !
But just heard that using Sat-Nav on a mobile ( in a holder) ,is classed as using a mobile while driving . Is this correct?
PS , I like quiche as well

 

I use mine a lot, when travelling to West Mids, so many roadworks, and I always seem to lose my way in Stourbridge, as it`s in a holder, or in my case on the passenger seat, it`s working hands free and that`s legal, so assume Sat Nav bit is too.

 

I think you can use it, but you must not touch it or play with it untill you stop and switch off the engine

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiz6pbZrfTVAhUJAsAKHY-rCh8QFghGMAU&url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/use-your-phone-sat-nav-13512121&usg=AFQjCNFLwE63Y8w7qSZmqGiVytGC6NVVeA

 

Using Your Smartphone As A SatNav Is As Illegal As Texting While Driving | HuffPost UK

 

Well now I know ! If you don't touch it while driving , you should be OK . I wonder how many people know this who use their mobile as a sat-nav?

 

Trying to view a small screen phone attached to the windscreen can be dangerous, a tablet with a larger screen is much safer



P.S. Finding a suitable windscreen mount might be difficult.

 

Your sat nav talks to you. There is no need look at it.

G.

 

When Mrs Scrungee holds my phone whilst using Google Navigation, I have to still keep an eye on it to make sense of why the voice directions are telling me to go over footbridges, drive along cyclepaths, or are sending us to the local rail station as she keeps inadvertantly changing the mode of transport.

Another one that caused confusion was managing to turn off autorotate, holding the phone upside down and giving me verbal instructions that were the opposite to the voice instructions coming from my phone.

 

When I drive, my wife looks after the phone. She then tells me when I've gone too far. That's really helpful.

G.

 

Mine doesn't

 

I didn't even know you could use your phone as a satnav?
I take the odd picture but mostly just use it for communication.

I have a satnav, but the screen is too small for me to see without my reading glasses, if I wear my reading glasses I cant see where I'm driving

Mostly pretty useless unless you want to end up in some narrow lane with nowhere to turn round.

 

My sat nav proper lives in my glove box. It's too much hassle to get it out and too time consuming if I need it whilst on the move. I decided I wanted to use it recently, as the phone sat nav is a waste of Internet data, only to discover it wasn't there. I vaguely recall removing it last time I had my car serviced. I only had it because my mum insisted on buying it for my birthday. I used to manage quiet nicely using a road atlas.

G.