Intelligence on your handlebar
Always connected with the digital world, even on the move: Thanks to the smartphone and COBI.Bike app, the SmartphoneHub offers you a wide range of useful functions - from navigation, music control, fitness tracking and making calls to the connection to other services and apps, such as Strava or komoot. An integrated display that supplies the most important riding data, even without the smartphone, ensures complete flexibility. The SmartphoneHub keeps you perfectly connected.
Highlights
Connectivity
Extremely well connected: Thanks to the smartphone with the COBI.Bike app, the SmartphoneHub can become a fully networked control centre that navigates and records activities and connects them to other services and apps.
Well conceived solution
Clever connections: The combination of SmartphoneHub, COBI.Bike app and smartphone creates a completely connected riding experience. At the same time, this gives you maximum flexibility so you can use your eBike with or without a smartphone connected.
Integrated display
Even without a smartphone on the handlebar: The 1.5-inch LCD display integrated in the SmartphoneHub shows the most important riding data and enables the eBike system to be activated.
Navigation
Always a reliable guide: The COBI.Bike app guides you reliably to your destination – with either 2D or 3D map view. The navigation instructions are also issued by voice output using the smartphone.
Live weather
The carefree way to cruise through the countryside: Up-to-the-minute weather forecasts ensure you are always well-informed, thanks to the COBI.Bike app.
Training partner
Setting and checking goals: The COBI.Bike app turns the smartphone into a digital trainer by connecting to fitness and health services like Apple Health, Google Fit and Strava.
Fitness data
Fitter with the smartphone: The COBI.Bike app gives you a permanent overview of the most important training data such as performance, cadence and calorie consumption. It is also possible to connect a heart rate monitor using Bluetooth technology.
Entertainment
The easy way to listen to your favourite music or the latest thriller: The COBI.Bike app gives you access to music and audio book streaming services.
Operability
Easy handling: The separate control unit enables you to control all functions comfortably from the handlebar. The voice output means that you no longer have to look at the display while navigating or changing functions.
Legibility
Clear layout: Information is always perfectly readable, whether on the display of the smartphone or SmartphoneHub.
Charging function
Charging the smartphone battery while on the move: The smartphone can be connected to the SmartphoneHub using the USB port or by means of the optional iPhone mount, enabling it to be conveniently powered from the eBike battery.
Wireless update
Always up-to-date: software updates for the SmartphoneHub can be installed with ease using wireless technology with the help of the COBI.Bike app.
Intelligently connected – the Bosch eBike World
COBI.Bike Smartphone-App
The SmartphoneHub uses the COBI.Bike app to connect to the smartphone via Bluetooth. The app provides the eBiker with a modern, fully integrated control centre - with real-time fitness data, ride planning and recording options, as well as voice output. This connects the rider to the digital world.
Riding modes
Off |
Eco mode |
Tour |
Sport/eMTB* |
Turbo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No support (all display functions are still available). | Low level support with maximum efficiency for the longest range. | Uniform support for rides with long ranges. | Powerful support for all types of riding, such as a sporty ride or for fast commuting in city traffic. | Maximum support delivered immediately - even up to the highest cadences for sporty riding. |
*Progressive support for a natural riding sensation and optimal control on demanding terrain.
Frequently asked questions about SmartphoneHub
Yes. In addition, the system also supports all devices that use the standard Bluetooth® profile for Bluetooth® Smart (4.x/BLE), e.g. heart rate belts, armbands or other wearables that measure heart rate.
If you hold down on the minus button on the thumb controller for a few seconds, you will come directly to Music mode. Playback options can be changed here. To return to the most recent mode, press and hold down the "Select" button on the thumb controller.
Yes, you can receive important calls directly with Bosch Remote. You can also connect your smartphone to compatible Bluetooth headsets. Don't forget that you must first add your contacts from your smartphone to the COBI.Bike app. Click the "Edit" icon in the contacts and add the contacts you want to call while on the move.
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