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: MINI Connected without an iPhone?


spiney
Dec 5th, 2011, 03:50 PM
I'm trying to spec my new car, and I want to understand whether MINI Connected (with or without nav) does anything useful for me if I have an Android phone and not an iPhone.

I prefer the look of the regular speedo versus the screen, but if there are any useful things I might do it, it's only a few hundred bucks different than all the options from that pack plus the Bluetooth, which is my alternative.

For instance:
- do I get to use all the car setup menus on the screen instead of in the one-line in the rev counter?
- does the park distance control show in the screen?
- does my phone book from the Android get synced to the car and show up in the screen for easy access?

I understand that I won't get the Pandora control, etc., but is there anything else that is better with the screen than without?