BMW Adds Full Internet Access to Its iDrive

rocco · 05-05-2008, 09:37 PM

iDrive could use some tweaks for sure, but it offers excellent and generally quick functionality overall...given the choice between its super-clean integration and a higher functioning system with dozens of buttons that make the interior look like the cockpit of a commercial aircraft, i'll take the idrive.

dimisa1977 · 05-05-2008, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by tag824

Laptop > iPhone... all day long

true, but in car would be neat too.

1badE90 · 05-06-2008, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by AWD Addict

I love my iDrive. I'll never understand why it got so much flak. Probably because they debuted it in the 7 series, which is driven by a bunch of old fogey luddites.

It gets flak because is windows CE based program and it crashes a lot. It need to have a more stable OS like a unix based, maybe darwin????

tintivilus · 05-06-2008, 10:36 PM

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It gets flak because is windows CE based program and it crashes a lot. It need to have a more stable OS like a unix based, maybe darwin????

It's been a month, so it's about time somebody spouted off about iDrive running Windows CE.

Dude, it's VxWorks. Not even remotely Windows.

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