The bottom line for those reading this thread I think is that:

1) You CAN do this with a tethered iPod and an Android phone - no iPhone required

2) It can have utility advantages over the conventional set-up which requires the user to constantly connect/disconnect the iPhone

3) You don't have to "do something illegal" to enjoy it

4) Data usage is equivalent between tethered and conventional set-ups; you won't run into "massive overage charges" any more than not tethering

I apologize if there was any confusion. I'm just sharing ideas and experiences with my fellow motorists in the same spirit as you have all so wonderfully shared with me!

 

No, sorry for the confusion, my car has Navigation as well.
I have had a Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone for almost 2 years.
It was updated recently to 4.2.2 but still works. It quit auto linking after the update, but unpairing and making it forget car then repairing corrected that problem.

 

that make more sense to me. I have a Galaxy and it had no problem pairing for phone. The newer version will allow music to stream. I have Nav built into the car but I really like the feature of transferring from google maps using connected. it really burns me to know Android doesnt interface with Connected...but they use google maps which was made for android. I normally plan out longer trips and just save maps to my google accouint....would be nice to not have to redundantly put them into the nav too

 

I'm curious to know what makes you say that the Nav uses Google Maps. I'm still getting to know the Nav system in my MCS, but nothing about it seems to resemble Google Maps, either in content, or behaviour. I love Google Maps, and the Nav system, from what I've seen is quite terrible. Eh, maybe I'll get used to it.
P.S., I'm on Android as well. Never have and never will own an iPhone.

 

Yes it's constantly pinging data out.. but that is host to device pinging. They are just handshaking which only draws more battery. Until you request a data transfer, like fetching data from email or opening your pandora app and selecting a song. That's when packets will actually be sent.

 

Our family has an iPhone 4s, 5 and Galaxy Nexus (running latest CyanogenMod). With MINI Connected on our 2012 R57:
- iPhone 4s and 5 work perfectly
- GNex will play via USB, aux, or BT but of course does not support MINI Connected

I believe the big reason MINI won't support Android as it stands is the fragmentation - different BT standards, huge variation in OSes, different chipsets, and having to test and work with many different OEMs.

MINI works directly with Apple in Cupertino and its much easier to develop apps for one iPhone platform in Cupertino than dozens of different Android OEMs scattered across Asia.

Another reason is that the demographic for MINI tends to be iPhone users more so than Android users.

 

Interesting - my Android Galaxy S3 works perfectly with Connected with no compatibility issues at all.

That's interesting. Is this a documented fact?

 

I pretty much disagree with that entire post. It's not fragmentation - it's laziness. Tens of thousands of app developers have somehow struggled through "fragmentation" issues to release top-flight applications, often for both platforms.