How is in-car WiFi from the car maker better?

[geercom]

Since people can connect to WiFi using a mobile WiFi hotspot like a MiFi already, what does in-car WiFi enable or offer that bringing your own MiFi device does not?

 

[jmueller065]

It doesn't but the MiFi wasn't readily available when this version of Sync first came out (late 2010), and it provided a "sales brochure tick point".

In addition, just about every smartphone these days can provide a hotspot.

Besides, with the kludgyness of My Ford Touch would you really want to depend on it for internet? (Given that the routing is a basic function in windows this feature probably performs pretty well even though nobody uses it! LOL)

 

[scoops]

Tried to get the following to work with my unlocked Android phone:

LTE --> Phone --> Bluetooth --> MFT --> WIFI

Unfortuantly I can't get the car to connect to my phone's BT PAN profile. All other bluetooth functions work ok with minor bugs

Has anyone had success getting something similar set up?