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      07-19-2012, 05:22 AM   #1
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I have an m sport 528i with business nav. I don't have professional nav however I have an iPod touch and a galaxy s2 and both the SD card and phones hard drive are detected and I can access my file structure and music with no problems at all. The phone needs to be plugged into the USB in the center consol but nothing works on the USB in the glove box. I wantto leave one in and just bt the phone. When I use the office app it only has contacts. Its shit. How can they call it office? What does it do unless you have the retrofit of professional nav and the 6nr ugrade. Wouldn't you just call it contacts as all it does is show the contacts in your phone book.?
Is there anything you can do with this crap sub menu of I drive with an iPhone or otherwise?
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Full Office works with BlackBerries only. Partly with some SonyEricsson and Nokia phones. SMS and Contacts with many phones. iPhone will have Office integration with IOS6 due this fall.

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http://www.bmw.com/com/en/owners/nav...ROW&country=au
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      07-20-2012, 05:00 AM   #3
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I get messages plus contacts with my HTC One X because I selected the option in the Bluetooth menu. Do you see the option for "Messages" in the car's menu somewhere?

I do feel your frustration though, its a real pity that even at this point there is no set standard for full access to the most popular phones (iOS, Android, BB). How difficult could it be? They can design and implement a system with AI that parallel parks the car for you but should you want to access your emails on your non-BB phone? Oh no....sorry sir, that is just too difficult! Please come back when you have a BB.
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      07-20-2012, 05:25 PM   #4
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Its just the BMW way. They over engineer one thing to death and overlook the obvious simplicity of things most needed. A good example is the lack of reverse cameras yet they include a stupid TV as standard on some levels of fittment.
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I don't agree with everything here. To have a communication you must always engage at least two parties/sevices, and to get the communication to work both parties must agree upon some terms. For a mobile manufactor there are several protocols to use, like SyncMl for mail and calendars and MAP (Message Access Profile) for text/SMS. Some of these are new (like MAP) and some old like SyncMl. BMW accept both this protocols, but the mobile manufactors does not provide them. New Androids comes with MAP, but no SyncMl. BB can use both, SE and Nokia have both, but the SyncMl is a modified solution that does not work with email, etc.

So therefore, you cannot blame BMW entirely.
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Makes sense. Agreed.
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