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Default [Q] Vibrant Car Dock Help

Just purchased the Vibrant, and I am desperately looking for a car mount for it. I have no problems finding one on ebay and wherever else...

My problem is that I use this phone for GPS/Phone/Mp3 player, I need a car dock that will mount to the windshield (or dash) and is able to be rotated from horizontal to vertical, "WITHOUT" having to loosen a knob, and re-tighten it...looking for one i can flip on the fly... I listen to long mp3 pod casts (with commercials in between (to skip through) and for whatever reason, this phone..when flipped horizontally switches to a screen to flip through songs and gives you play and pause controls...no Fast Forward / Rewind buttons....what the hell!!!??? anyways, so while docked, when the podcast gets to a commercial, i need to be able to flip the phone vertical to get my FF/RW buttons, get back into the program and flip back to horizontal to get back to navi...

Anyone know of a good mount to do this??? Vibrant is somewhat new, so it does not necessarily have to be made specifically for it, but if you know of a good universal one that will fit vibrant's dimensions, let me know..
 
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There are tons of mounts, both galaxy specific and universal, available on ebay. Don't have time to find one for you at the moment but if I go looking later I'll post back for ya.There's also atleast one thread here with tons of car mounts. That might be the best place for you to start looking as theres a bunch of pictures, reviews, and links. Good luck.
 
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This one is mounted using a ball joint, that tightens with a ring. I find that you can tighten the ring as such that it is both firm enough to hold the orientation of the dock during driving, but loose enough that you can still easily rotate it.

The rest of the thread also has many examples of other car docks, mostly universal ones. Read through them and I'm sure you'll get an idea of which ones can rotate or not, or perhaps ask some of them there if its not clear. There a few of these posts here and also in the i9000 accessories forum, so seriously do some searching and digging, the threads are not that old.
 
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