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    i have an A7 with google earth built into the MMI system, this needs a sim card to run. my question is, can i use a data sim to do this rather than a fully functional sim. and would my phone still work for the phone calls and not try to go through the installed 'data sim' . so 2 questions there then.
     
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    There's a couple of big threads on the google maps thing both in this section (a7) and the c7 a6 section - Audi A6 - C7 Forum - 2011-
     
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    your right, they are big threads. thanks for that
     
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    If it helps, I got a T-Mobile broadband SIM for my A6. It's £7.50 a month with a 1GB data allowance. This is left in the car and I use my BlackBerry for all other phone functions, but mine is a 2014 model which allows you to insert a SIM into the car and still use your phone with the Bluetooth connection. This was a fairly recent change (June 2013?) and previous A6/A7 models would disconnect the Bluetooth connection as soon as you inserted a SIM into the dashboard.

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    thats exactly what i want to do. my A7 is a 2011 but has been fully serviced, i wonder if the software needed to do this was done when the car was updated at service, do any of the tech guys reading this would know ? Neil S - does the MMI menu offer this when you insert the sim ?
     
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    I believe it was a hardware change that allowed you to have a dash-mounted SIM and still use the Bluetooth connection, but don't take my word for it. I'm sure I've read somewhere here that it's not just a software update.

    And yes, the phone settings in the MMI allow you to specify whether you want to make calls from the bonded handset or inserted SIM.

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    So if mine is currently being built it should come with the new hardware allowing me to use GE and my phone at the same time?


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    yeah, go on, rub it in
     
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    Sorry....but only a little bit!


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    Full disclosure first is that I work for Vodafone so as a result I have a Vodafone SIM (on contract) in my car that supports voice and data just because I don't pay much for it.

    But the best deal if you just want data is to buy a Three 3GB 3 Month PAYG data only SIM off Amazon for about £12 like this one Three Mobile Broadband Ready to Go 3GB Preloaded Data: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics (which works out at £4 per month)

    Then at the end of 3 months you just throw it away and get a new one off Amazon

    The Three data network is very good indeed and I have personally used this in my car in the past and it works really well (within the UK)

    To give you an idea on data usage, last week I had the system fully connected with Google Earth maps enabled on my drive back from a small village near Cognac in France, up to Calais and then from Folkstone to Lincolnshire. This was almost 1000km and clearly a journey that I had not driven before so the maps were not cached.

    Total data used = 158MB and of course if I were to drive that journey again tomorrow, I would not use anywhere near that bandwidth because the data is now cached. On a typical month, it is rare I see the data usage go over 200MB so a 1GB per month SIM is plenty

    The only reason I would not consider the Three SIM is if I wanted to use it outside of the UK
     
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