Hi,
I've got a 2013 Explorer XLT with MFT and navigation option...
Let me start out saying that I'm a bit of a geek and the MFT was a large part of the decision to go with the Explorer...it's also a looker as well...
So far my experience with the MFT has been a mixed bag...
Positives
- Generally very intuitive
- Nice functionality (although it's criminal that the applications are non existent and hardly any of the cool features work up here in Canada)
- Navigation is surprisingly good
- Integration with Zune player is very good
- Stereo bluetooth works well (when it works)
Negatives
- laggy. Ford either has horrible software programmers or the hardware is severely lagging. Seems to have problems doing more than one thing at a time. Please don't blame Microsoft as Ford is just using windows embedded which works fine with the industrial PLC's my company makes
- stereo bluetooth - sometimes it connects fine and plays music from my windows phone and other times it refuses to connect for the music portion while the phone itself is connected
- zune - I've got a 32gb zune player. When you first plug it in, the indexing takes ageeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. Seriously, there is no excuse for it taking over 2 hours to just pull artist and song details from the device...it tends to bog the whole system down and I had to leave my car on with the key in it for a couple of hours to fully index and even then it only worked after trying it a few times.
After it working great for a few days, it suddenly came up with the message that a non compatible usb device was plugged in...I then started to look for the dreaded fuse box (which I could not find without a flashlight)...while driving home about 30 minutes later, it just decided to find the zune after plugging it in and out about 10 times and turning off the explorer a few times
- voice recognition - completely pitiful. However, I believe this has as much to do with the mft not being able to do too many things at one time as sometimes it's spot on
Overall, I think it's pretty shameful on Ford's part to still be having issues on the 3rd year of this vehicle with the main product feature, the MFT. Ford needs to fire the team or pay Microsoft to do it themselves...perhaps with the new MS "metro" design which is cool....
Anyone else have the zune music player issues or related usb music device problems?
LIP
I've got a 2013 Explorer XLT with MFT and navigation option...
Let me start out saying that I'm a bit of a geek and the MFT was a large part of the decision to go with the Explorer...it's also a looker as well...
So far my experience with the MFT has been a mixed bag...
Positives
- Generally very intuitive
- Nice functionality (although it's criminal that the applications are non existent and hardly any of the cool features work up here in Canada)
- Navigation is surprisingly good
- Integration with Zune player is very good
- Stereo bluetooth works well (when it works)
Negatives
- laggy. Ford either has horrible software programmers or the hardware is severely lagging. Seems to have problems doing more than one thing at a time. Please don't blame Microsoft as Ford is just using windows embedded which works fine with the industrial PLC's my company makes
- stereo bluetooth - sometimes it connects fine and plays music from my windows phone and other times it refuses to connect for the music portion while the phone itself is connected
- zune - I've got a 32gb zune player. When you first plug it in, the indexing takes ageeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. Seriously, there is no excuse for it taking over 2 hours to just pull artist and song details from the device...it tends to bog the whole system down and I had to leave my car on with the key in it for a couple of hours to fully index and even then it only worked after trying it a few times.
After it working great for a few days, it suddenly came up with the message that a non compatible usb device was plugged in...I then started to look for the dreaded fuse box (which I could not find without a flashlight)...while driving home about 30 minutes later, it just decided to find the zune after plugging it in and out about 10 times and turning off the explorer a few times
- voice recognition - completely pitiful. However, I believe this has as much to do with the mft not being able to do too many things at one time as sometimes it's spot on
Overall, I think it's pretty shameful on Ford's part to still be having issues on the 3rd year of this vehicle with the main product feature, the MFT. Ford needs to fire the team or pay Microsoft to do it themselves...perhaps with the new MS "metro" design which is cool....
Anyone else have the zune music player issues or related usb music device problems?
LIP