I think you are getting sat nav and connect mixed up!
All sorts - finding parking, finding fuel, real time traffic display, google earth imagery on the sat nav, dictating text messages are the main ones. You can get a rain radar on the weather bit which is pretty nice too!
I've bought a Three PAYG sim for it on the 3,2,1 plan. It's a penny per mb and because it's PAYG with no expiry on top ups I can monitor how much it's costing. Should be fairly cheap and Three have been starting their 4G switch on too.
I've bought a Three PAYG sim for it on the 3,2,1 plan. It's a penny per mb and because it's PAYG with no expiry on top ups I can monitor how much it's costing. Should be fairly cheap and Three have been starting their 4G switch on too.
all sorts - finding parking, finding fuel, real time trafficsomeoneay, google earth imagery on the sat nav, dictating text messages are the main ones. You can get a rain radar on the weather bit which is pretty nice too!
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I will be getting a three sim as overall they have by far the best value network for data...providing you can get coverage. EEs 4g network is only a little bit quicker than threes 3g network but they charge alot for 4g data and their 3g network is not a patch on three's. Threes 4g network launch is different to the other network operators as they wont charge customers for 4g
I'm already on three, Vodafone, o2 and vmedia who use the EE network
The fact that three wont care for 4g is a big sell. Your car has been setup for 4g as well but I guess depends on data use
Did some tests
Three up 20mbps
O2 up to 6mpbs
Virginia up to 5mbps
Vodafone up to 80kbps at home and rarely over 300kbps
Vodafone is shocking especially as they are part way through building a site share with o2
Dictating text messages sounds cool.. is it speech to text and send or does it call someone who types it for you
I can confirm that a Three PAYG sim works perfectly (as we knew) and also gives 4G.
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Spent a few hours playing with my new car today when I went over to sign the paperwork.
I can confirm that a Three PAYG sim works perfectly (as we knew) and also gives 4G. Where the garage was in Derby gave a 4/5 signal on 4G and google maps were like lightning - as was street view, petrol prices etc etc. Just for interest, my iPhone 5S gave 32mb speedtest on Three in their carpark.
I can also confirm that the Ovivo Sim DOES NOT work - it will connect to a data profile (ie you get a 3G signal on the bottom right hand corner) but it won't process data. No error message or anything, just it won't work. I can only assume this is because it doesn't flow data until you've viewed a HTML page with adverts on (as it does when you have a tablet). Pity, could have been a perfect solution.
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Spent a few hours playing with my new car today when I went over to sign the paperwork.
I can confirm that a Three PAYG sim works perfectly (as we knew) and also gives 4G. Where the garage was in Derby gave a 4/5 signal on 4G and google maps were like lightning - as was street view, petrol prices etc etc. Just for interest, my iPhone 5S gave 32mb speedtest on Three in their carpark.
Pic of 4G!
2G: GSM network
3G: UMTS network
4G: HSPA+ network
LTE: LTE network
Ha! Brilliant - well that was me fooled then!!
HSPA+ is really quite rapid anyway so that's not too bad, however LTE was available where I was so will just have to watch out for "LTE" to come up on the screen then as I drive out next weekend - if it does.
Thanks for the info
Ref speed testing - do we know what type of WLAN it propagates? I'm assuming it will be an "N" network, because if it's a "B" then we won't be seeing any more than 11mb!!
Yes I have had a great day - it's always nice going to garages during the week when the obvious sales pressure is off and you can just relax and have a decent conversation with the staff.
Derby have limited their new car collections to 30 on the 1st March, with loads in the following few days. They are also delivering cars to people at home during this week on trade plates so people can have them in their own garage ready for 12 midnight (hmmm....... there's a thought..)
I didn't think to try the WLAN but to be honest, I suspect it will work fine, just don't abuse it otherwise Three with probably throttle/cut off the sim. Yes it was a 321 sim that I'd put a tenner on.
I also saw that it caches the maps too which is cool - I took the sim out and it still continued to show the google maps it had - just gave a warning on the screen saying that they will only be updated when a sim is inserted etc.
Didn't think to look at the data counter unfortunately - I might see if I can log into my3 later on and see if it has registered any data usage - probably not as I was only playing for 30 mins with connect.
I also have high hopes for the reception antenna for the connect/sim system in the car as my iphone only showed 2/5 bars when in the car and the had 4/5 as shown. (please let's not let this get into the iphone vs android debate again - I'm sure a galaxy would have been the same).
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Spent a few hours playing with my new car today when I went over to sign the paperwork.
I can confirm that a Three PAYG sim works perfectly (as we knew) and also gives 4G. Where the garage was in Derby gave a 4/5 signal on 4G and google maps were like lightning - as was street view, petrol prices etc etc. Just for interest, my iPhone 5S gave 32mb speedtest on Three in their carpark.
I can also confirm that the Ovivo Sim DOES NOT work - it will connect to a data profile (ie you get a 3G signal on the bottom right hand corner) but it won't process data. No error message or anything, just it won't work. I can only assume this is because it doesn't flow data until you've viewed a HTML page with adverts on (as it does when you have a tablet). Pity, could have been a perfect solution.
Pic of 4G!
Had you registered the OVIVO sim on another device first?
Just a thought.... but what a ****** otherwise!!!