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WiFi To BMW
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http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51398
Dean
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They showed this off last year also. Nothing new but it is nice and something to look forward to.
This is all coming from work Hans-Jörn Vögel is doing.
There is a podcast on iTunes that talks about this from March 2006 if you are interested.
Hans-Jörn couldn´t make it but his colleague Dr. Bernado Lopez-Alvaredo is speaking on my technology panel at TechFest next week. See the BMW CCA site for details.
We will be covering this during my session.
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Not to be negative  But I think three years from now this thing will be obsolete. Hopefully BMW will pick something that will be still modern in MY 2010. For example, why 20GB and why hard disk? Solid state comes out this year in 32 GB size, 3 years from now 20 GB HDD will look like carburetor engine today...
WiFi... Which WiFi variety and which security protocol will be used? I hope BMW won't require my wireless network to be open or to use obsolete security protocol. And hopefully it will be at least g variety, but better be n since 20GB download via wireless is slow over 54 MBps link. WiFi configuration is a nightmare and I am not sure J. Random User will be able to set it up. I guess I'd prefer simple plug-in flash card. In 2010 I bet 64 GB card will cost $100.
However, internet over cell link is a good idea. Now, can I get mini-keyboard connected to iDrive? 
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Quote: Not to be negative But I think three years from now this thing will be obsolete. Hopefully BMW will pick something that will be still modern in MY 2010. For example, why 20GB and why hard disk? Solid state comes out this year in 32 GB size, 3 years from now 20 GB HDD will look like carburetor engine today...
WiFi... Which WiFi variety and which security protocol will be used? I hope BMW won't require my wireless network to be open or to use obsolete security protocol. And hopefully it will be at least g variety, but better be n since 20GB download via wireless is slow over 54 MBps link. WiFi configuration is a nightmare and I am not sure J. Random User will be able to set it up. I guess I'd prefer simple plug-in flash card. In 2010 I bet 64 GB card will cost $100.
However, internet over cell link is a good idea. Now, can I get mini-keyboard connected to iDrive? | Up to date is always a problem. Car makers have found it difficult (with good reason) to design vehicles around technlogy that didn´t exist yet, and they are not better at guessing than anyone else.
Look at the difficulties with mobile phones. Case in point: BMW´s CPT-8000 and CPT-9000 (and predecessors) mobiles were designed several years before the vehicle was on the road. As a result, in 2002, a 7er coming with a CPT-9000 had a phone that was already obsolete.
Bluetooth has helped minimize this problem but opened up a can of worms that auto makers never anticipated, that of incompatibility issues.
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Also....for those of you who may have seen this feature in various online venues about the Geneva Auto Show, the biggest hurdle that BMW and others who are doing the same thing are having is Licensing Technology at an affordable price and other legal IP issues. This is a case where the auto makers are trying go forward but are being set back by a ton of legal and license issues.
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