The ‘ota updates’ is a con on MG’s part. It only does the media unit. For anything else, it still needs the dealer. There is no mention of ota updates on the mg uk site now.
It might be a chip shortage thing, just as the models now no longer have a Sun roof.
The worst part is that they haven't even given any OTA updates for the infotainment until now.
There are a lot of bad spelling, badly labelled buttons and so on, i would love to have those fixed, but honestly what is the point in spending the time to document it, and send it to them, when there is never any updates.
I would also imagine that, since the navigation app is probably a "fork" from the Android Here app, that they would be able to update the app with stuff, that the official android app gets from Here.
Lastly, but certainly not least important, is the fact that the radio clearly runs android, and android, the same way as all other OSes have security flaws.
Google releases android updates every month, and if this radio is based off of android, they really should release OTA firmware updates, if for nothing else, then the security related stuff. Remember, this infotainment has a direct internet connection, so it will be vulnerable for attacks if they do not maintain the system.
In the coming years, they might even need to upgrade the version of android the infotainment is built upon, as google, only releases security updates for, i think the last 3 version of android.
If this radio was based on, say android 10, then it will only receive security updates until version 14 comes around, and that is about a year from now. (Android 13 is probably being released in August 2022, so August 2023, Android 14 will come around)
The Danish site still says "OTA updates" for the "luxury" variant (Similar to the Connect in the UK)