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      03-04-2011, 01:33 PM   #3
jadnashuanh
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Drives: 535iGT x-drive; i3 BEV
Join Date: May 2010
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As I understand it, the smartphone integration takes up some of the center armrest with a bracket to hold the phone. It will charge the phone as well. It was not clear, but it may also couple the antenna to an external one to improve reception. Somewhere I read that without this, you could get interference in the car when using a cellphone. If you have Nav, there is a USB port in the glovebox that can be used to upload info to the harddrive, but I do not know if you could actually directly read and play music from it without uploading it first. The user manual states that the USB port should not be used to charge a device, only to communicate with it. This seems a little tricky, as they say you can use a USB memory stick to load stuff in or out, which obviously would be powered (but I suppose not really 'charged').
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