8 Mar 2025, 16:53

Today I took my first ride with the new Carpuride 702BS and the MRA app. As I was really impressed with the MRA planning tool - I also expected a lot from the app. Unfortunately, MRA-App has completely failed with Android Auto, not to say I find it absolutely unusable!

Why am I buying a 7 inch screen? To see as much as possible of the loaded route and map in a reasonable resolution!
MRA with Android Auto fails completely! What makes it even worse is that it has no zoom functions. Simply incomprehensible.
Either a maximum of 100 meters of the route are visible because the resolution is so stupid, or the whole route plus surrounding area is displayed (with north at the top). Either way, navigating with it is PITA.

  • but it has “information boards” on the left that take up almost half the screen. Why, but above all why so unnecessarily large?
  • Recalculations take far too long - even the BMW Navigator is faster
  • the power consumption is unacceptable. A 100% fully charged cell phone is empty in a maximum of 5 hours.

My conclusion:
The MRA planning tools are really sensational!
The MRA app (in this version) with Android Auto (in this version) is simply absolutely useless.
I will use the BMW Navigator again, which is not perfect either - but much, much better than the MRA app with Andriod Auto.

I don't want to blame anyone, maybe Android Auto is so limited that MRA simply can't do any better. But I hope that over time (when it has more and more users) this will perhaps develop further - and until then MRA will remain with me - just a very good planning tool - but not a navigation app.