I've been doing some research and can't seem to find info on whether or not Toyota will create an Entune App for Windows 8 phone. I'm currently looking at getting a Windows 8 phone, but if Entune is not supported, then I may be having to stay with Android (which in itself is fine), but I really like the new windows phones coming out. Since Toyota already partners with Microsoft with Bing on the Entune suite, I think it would be great if they can partner on a Windows phone app for Entunes as well.
No OEM supports Windows Phone. Too little market share. No OEM has an incentive to support it. And, a petition that can't spell discrimination properly...doesn't look so good.
And that's a discrimination against minority. There are 37 Toyota owners that endorsed the petition. Those paid Toyota around $925000 for their cars, almost 1 million dollars. The other fact is that Toyota is selling a car with features that only work with specific phones and most of the time the dealers fail to tell you that, like in my case. Forcing a person buying a car to buy a specific phone seems to me wrong. And thanks for the spell correction. English is my 3rd language. Today in the news Microsoft announces new Windows Phone partners, including Lenovo and LG | ZDNet So this so call "minority" is a growing market.
when MS does this, U can get entune working! Strange bedfellows: Microsoft could bring Android apps to Windows | The Verge
If phone supports tethering over Bluetooth you can use that instead of Entunes. It's a much better solution than the app, essentially the car just uses your phone for its data connection.
That will disable the hand free support and the traffic feature as far as I know requires the Phone Entune App.
The phone hands free and Bluetooth music don't use the tethered internet connection, those are independent and run simultaneously. The traffic feature, and all other data functions, work with tethering. Things like email, calendar, photos, etc probably don't.
Tethering was required on older version iPhones. On the 2014 models, both iPhone and Android, you don't have to tether your device to use Entune. I REALLY want to switch to a Windows phone, but I sell Toyotas, so I have to have an Entune capapble phone to demo it to customers. In my opinion right now, Androids work best with Entune and Bluetooth. iPhone compatibility varies depending on both which OS and which model you use. (For example, the tether requirement; inability/difficulty accessing your messages/email via bluetooth).
All the contractor has to do is take the Entune App source code and try to compile it in VS with a little redesigning of the screens for WP8.x
