Connected Drive...... Worth it?

[R8VBV]

£120pa, is it worth it or just a gimmic?

[HoHoHo]

I use mine a lot to transfer addresses to the sat nav, other than that I don't think in 10 years I've ever used it for anything else.

£120......not sure to be honest.

[DannyB2007]

Worth it when combined with dragondrive to reply to texts and emails on the go! All via dictation, eyes on road, hands on wheel at all times

[HoHoHo]

DannyB2007 said:

Worth it when combined with dragondrive to reply to texts and emails on the go! All via dictation, eyes on road, hands on wheel at all times

I do that with Siri all the time and it doesn't need connected drive.

And it's free

[Tony B2]

Real Time Traffic Information - definitely want that, but £120 is a bit steep, especially now that they are ditching "Internet"

[jamoor]

R8VBV said:

£120pa, is it worth it or just a gimmic?

I'd say gimmick, my smartphone on the dash is far more useful.

[Skrambles]

It is steep, but I rely on the RTTI quite a lot.

[Ramona]

My E93 M3 had about 3 months subscription left when I got it.

I had a play with it at first, but the only really useful feature to me was the ability to send a destination to the satnav, and that certainly isn't worth £120 a year to me (especially as the car is an occasional-use toy rather than a daily driver, and I mostly tend to use Google Maps on my phone as it has much more up-to-date traffic data).

[W8PMC]

Tony B2 said:

Real Time Traffic Information - definitely want that, but £120 is a bit steep, especially now that they are ditching "Internet"

You need to subscribe for the RTTI?

Had this discussion elsewhere, but i thought the only Subscription services were Internet at around £90 per annum & BMW Music (like Apple Music)? I had Internet for the first 2 years but didn't renew this year & no interest in BMW Music as i use Spotify. I didn't think Connected Drive was a subscription, however i've noticed certain Con Drive features for me have become unusable such as Calendar, Twitter & the car now doesn't integrate text messages whereas before a little envelope would appear on the screen to show i'd received an SMS & i could view it or the car read it out. I still see RTTI in the Nav screen though & the car still offers diverted routes so that must be working OK.