Un-navigable Unfortunately HJ's advice isn't quite right. On the upside, you can look on the Skoda website and it lists all the phones that have been tested successfully and it's specific to the model of your car: compatibilitylist.skoda-auto.com/ The list does include a lot of phones and some that aren't listed might work, but none of the 4 Android phones owned by members of my family are in the midst and they don't work. If you don't mind tinkering with technology, I have found that by installing a different version of Android, you can make it work, but that's not entirely straightforward, usually invalidates your phone warranty and might stop some other services working (banking with HSBC, First Direct, Nationwide, MBNA are ok, but Barclays completely refuses). Easy to check though and you might be luckier than me! It's great when it works - my car does have built in satnav, but I haven't used it for years as the maps are never up to date and the traffic info is much better even on the free services. If you want to save data usage, buy a TomTom subscription for around £30; the worldwide maps with free updates are downloaded to your phone and only the traffic data comes via mobile data and that's a tiny amount.

Rooting an Andriod phone (or jail breaking an Apple phone) means losing service of many useful apps including banking and Sky Go etc. You can, if you know what you're doing, download other fixes that get around this problem. But every time the app owner updates their app, these fixes may not work and you have to wait for a new work around.

Alternatively, you can download your route from Google Maps to you phone and use that for navigation. Obviously, it will not provide automatic traffic updates but ive never found one that is current and they are always 2 or 3 hours out of date.

Ive used Waze recommended by HJ but found it a poor imitation of Google Maps and it's routes take me of diversionary routes.