Review: MotoGP Live Experience 2014 Mobile App

<div> <div>Product Type:&nbsp;</div> <div> <div> Mobile App </div> </div> </div> <p>There are many ways for fans to follow MotoGP: on TV, via newspapers, magazines and websites, via the official Dorna-run MotoGP.com website. Since last year, a new option has been added: the MotoGP Live Experience mobile app. The Live Experience app allows you to keep up with the latest news on your smartphone or tablet, see the results of practice sessions and races, or follow the sessions and races via live timing. But is it any good?</p> <p>I have been using the Live Experience app for the past two years &ndash; paid for out of my own pocket, I might add, not provided by Dorna &ndash; and have seen it improve in leaps and bounds. Early 2013 versions had a tendency to freeze, but new versions fixed most of those issues. Like all Dorna products, the policy seems to be release early, and fix problems as they go along. Now, nearly 18 months into the project, the Live Experience app has proven to be pretty stable, and usable on both WiFi and over a mobile data connection. I use it over my home internet connection for races I don't attend personally, and over mobile data connections at the track for races I do attend. But before looking at how it works, first a look at what you can expect from the Live Experience app.</p> <p><strong>What does it do?</strong></p> <p>The aim of the MotoGP Live Experience app is to help fans keep up to date with MotoGP on their mobile devices. To that end, it provides a subset of the information and services on the MotoGP.com website. There is a section with the latest news stories, a selection of photos, and a (highly abbreviated) selection of videos. There is a guide to the riders and teams in all three classes, and a summary of the rules and regulations of Grand Prix racing.</p> <p>The guts of the app, and to my mind, the main reason for purchasing it, is the ability to follow live timing. While the bikes are on track, a green button appears next to the session currently running, and a click on that takes you to a split screen, showing a 3D model of the track with the position of the bikes, and a timing screen showing the lap and sector times for all of the riders taking part in the session.</p> <p><a href="http://motomatters.com/review/2014/08/06/review_motogp_live_experience_2014_mobil.html" target="_blank">read more</a></p><div> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=UdsUPIWVb_g:OwM41LGFeJs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=UdsUPIWVb_g:OwM41LGFeJs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?i=UdsUPIWVb_g:OwM41LGFeJs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=UdsUPIWVb_g:OwM41LGFeJs:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=UdsUPIWVb_g:OwM41LGFeJs:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?i=UdsUPIWVb_g:OwM41LGFeJs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=UdsUPIWVb_g:OwM41LGFeJs:8QFB7NnbhRw"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?d=8QFB7NnbhRw" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=UdsUPIWVb_g:OwM41LGFeJs:bcOpcFrp8Mo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MotoGPMatters/~4/UdsUPIWVb_g" height="1" width="1">