Useful Accessory?

Hello! I'm working on the smartphone remote. It is handlebar mounted 5 key remote with no screen. With the help of the remote you can control music player, calls and intercom. What do you think of the idea?

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Part of cycling is getting away from my phone for a few hours.

Limited in appeal.

Yeah I don't like using my phone or listening to music on the bike, personally.

Partly it's a safety thing, partly because bike time is time to be away from that kind of thing.

I'm sure many think differently.

Agree - I don't want to be able to use my phone or listen to music when cycling.

I think that if you get to the point of wanting to use a phone/music device while cycling then it's probably going to be an interesting idea.

I suppose that really you need to find a broad enough audience to properly assess whether there is a sufficient market for it and what kind of price point those interested in might want to commit to.

All you done is shown a picture, given a very loose description and a not that informative picture. Give us some more information about what it is, how is works, what the cross-platform compatability is etc.

Maybe the wrong forum. you want the office types who talk on the phone while cycling, or have earphones in anyway

@bashthebox care to elaborate?

@The_Seldom_Killer you can get better idea at http://facebook.com/talkey.io

@pdlouche you can use it for music player or app like Zello on your phone as well as phone calls. Can you suggest some forums?

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A few reasons I guess.
Firstly - perhaps most significantly - a lot of the functionality of your device is already found in the earphones. Ok so it's not always separate buttons, but normally one or three buttons work for almost all the functions you have listed.
A device tied to a bike - is it expensive? Is it work nicking? does it make your bike look less good?
Do you have to sync your phone with it each time you use it? Does it have an internal battery that needs replacing/recharging?
For me, it adds to the complexity of riding, it encourages debatably less safe riding with headphones, and isn't really necessary.

Firstly, Thank You for your reply.

Remote is mounted on the handlebar as you can see in the picture above. You can easily attach/detach it, so theft is not an issue.
You don't need to take your hand of the grip and you can wear gloves too. I don't believe earphones have the same functionality.
It uses Bluetooth(BLE4.0) to connect with your phone and operates on replaceable coin battery which can last up to two years.
Estimated price will be around £30.

i just dont want other people f*cking about with making calls or asking siri directions when they should be concentrating on road.

Seems like it would be better aimed towards motorbike users.

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Can you elaborate?

You wanna use bluetooth to spank my battery so my phone dies just as I'm about to KOM that climb...?

no babe

Also - headphones in when riding.... no babe

Jesus...

Well... BLE4.0 implies very low energy consumption.

I think there may be a market for it but not here. Motorcyclists, fair weather cyclist that will buy any accessory if it's cheap enough and office workers who would like to take calls on the move.

Thank you for your input.

doubt i'd use it on a bike, cycle to get away blah blah etc

would be good on a motorbike, I use headphones as earplugs to cut out wind noise but cant answer calls in armored leather gloves.

I think this is quite neat. Would certainly try it for controlling tunes while out and about.
I sometimes have an obnoxious handlebar speaker setup and other cyclists hate me, but its nice to hear music and still be wirefree.

It will work perfectly for that.

Wire free is the way to go.

Yeah, if I could use this to control a bottle-cage-sized bluetooth speaker or something, I might be interested. I don't currently use my phone for music because of the not wearing headphones while cycling thing alluded to by others - and I wouldn't make hands-free calls because it would be too distracting to try to concentrate on a conversation with someone who isn't there, responding to the same traffic etc. and also ride in a safety-conscious way.

I'm also an Android user rather than Apple so the Siri stuff is not really relevant.

You should learn from Apple and only have one button.

It should be the hang-up one >>>>