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Model S Software/Firmware wishlist

tccartier

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I'll tell you what I would like to see. Is there anyone out there with Elon's ear? I would like to see "swype" initiated into the browser. It is SO LAME to punch one letter at a time into the browser. Swype would be eminently more convenient?

I'm with you.. right after we get the browser to work reliably. I've only had mine work a few times out of the few times I've actually tried to use it, and when it does it's painfully slow to the point where it's useless.
 

tccartier

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You might think about the update? Especially since it's $1000 less now than when it was originally offered?

Perhaps but I want to keep my AM, FM, and XM radios and until fairly recently that wasn't an option if one was doing the retrofit. Now there is a path forward to keep your existing radios but it comes at a significant cost. That makes upgrading at this point a little less attractive I think it's around $500 or so for the existing radios to be kept intact while doing the upgrade which just keeping me out of the game for the moment I'll probably just do it of course when my original unit finally gives up the ghost.
 
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Bill Price

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Perhaps but I want to keep my AM, FM, and XM radios and until fairly recently that wasn't an option if one was doing the retrofit. Now there is a path forward to keep your existing radios but it comes at a significant cost. That makes upgrading at this point a little less attractive I think it's around $500 or so for the existing radios to be kept intact while doing the upgrade which just keeping me out of the game for the moment I'll probably just do it of course when my original unit finally gives up the ghost.
I hear ya. I didn't want to give up the radio either, but I can't say that I really miss it now with all the streaming I get. I guess if you are used to XM, you might miss Howard Stern or Sandra Bernhard? (tongue firmly in cheek)
 

tccartier

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Oct 27, 2015
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I hear ya. I didn't want to give up the radio either, but I can't say that I really miss it now with all the streaming I get. I guess if you are used to XM, you might miss Howard Stern or Sandra Bernhard? (tongue firmly in cheek)

I think in all honesty I could probably get by without the AM and FM radios but I really don't want to give up XM. due to the fact that a lot of my miles are out in flyover country where streaming sometimes is sketchy. So having a clear view of the sky and XM radio is the way to go sometimes.

I know there are workarounds where I could use the Sirius app on my phone and then Bluetooth it to the car but the difficulty with that solution is if my car has no signal then my phone probably won't either, although in all honesty that is a rarity since the car is on AT&t and my cell phone is on Verizon usually one of them will work. and honestly it's nice to have it native built into the car and available on the touch screen.

So I guess now I'm in for a penny in for a pound since I spent money on this old MCU1 I'll just use it now until it dies for good then look at options which by that time may include a new Model S hahaha!
 

Bill Price

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Sep 23, 2018
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I think in all honesty I could probably get by without the AM and FM radios but I really don't want to give up XM. due to the fact that a lot of my miles are out in flyover country where streaming sometimes is sketchy. So having a clear view of the sky and XM radio is the way to go sometimes.

I know there are workarounds where I could use the Sirius app on my phone and then Bluetooth it to the car but the difficulty with that solution is if my car has no signal then my phone probably won't either, although in all honesty that is a rarity since the car is on AT&t and my cell phone is on Verizon usually one of them will work. and honestly it's nice to have it native built into the car and available on the touch screen.

So I guess now I'm in for a penny in for a pound since I spent money on this old MCU1 I'll just use it now until it dies for good then look at options which by that time may include a new Model S hahaha!
I'm with ya, brother. I'm 99 44/100% sure I'm going to buy the plaid+ when they become available, hopefully later this year or early next year. We'll see, until then, I can't really see the logic in giving the richest man in the world an interest free loan of $1K for a year, so I'll wait. Come to think of it, poor old Elon might not be the richest man in the world any longer since TSLA is about 33% down in the last month? That reminds me of a joke about the rich man that lost everything in a stock market crash and he and his wife needed to change their lifestyle. He said to his wife, "if you learn how to cook we can fire the chef." She said, "if you learn how to make love we can fire the gardener as well."
 
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