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Originally Posted by E34
I don't think this is available in North America but maybe Brazil??
"BMW Live provides virtually the same valuable web-based mobility services as the BMW Assist Online portal but all online connections are delivered from your smart phone. Therefore even if your vehicle is not equipped with a BMW Navigation system you can still have access to all the information you need along your journey. "
"A number of exciting new BMW ConnectedDrive services is provided by
BMW Live. A limited range of existing BMW online services can now be accessed via Bluetooth with any Internet-enabled mobile phone with an appropriate data plan. All of the available online services appear via a Bluetooth connection on the vehicle's display and can be accessed easily and intuitively via the iDrive Controller. The customer's mobile phone acts as a modem.
At the launch, BMW Live offers free RSS news feeds, weather information as well as Google Local Search, Google Panoramio and Google Street View. To activate his preferred news source, the customer simply needs to enter the desired domain. The portal automatically searches the related RSS feeds on the web page and offers to read the headlines out loud with BMW Text to Speech. In addition to displaying the current weather conditions, the weather service also provides a four-day weather forecast on the monitor.
The Google services Local Search, Panoramio and Street View work just like standard BMW Online. The home page offers location selection, keyword input, categories and history. The addresses resulting from conducting a local search can be used as a destination and passed directly to the vehicle's navigation system. In addition, by using the iDrive controller, location-based images of the destination from Google Street View and Panoramio can be selected and displayed – even during the journey. BMW Live, the new service from BMW ConnectedDrive, is now available in the new BMW 1 Series. Customers can easily configure it themselves and set it to meet their individual needs. Further applications for BMW Live will be available soon throughout the world (except for the USA, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan)."
http://www.bmw.connecteddrive.info/e...ticle/101.html
It may be able to be coded. Here is a video explaining BMW Live.
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BMW Live is available in EU as a standalone option for around 100-150Euros. It is only available without nav & without telematics (BMW Assist). Also seems like no combox is necessary. Oddly, in Germany u can only have BMW Live if u don't spec enhanced BT, whereas in UK if u want BMW Live u must also have enhanced BT.
I think features such as BMW Office & BMW Live are already all built into the radio professional HU/combox, all u need is to activate the feature in some way.