Mercedes Wants To Make His Cars Smartphones On 4 Wheels

The brand with the star, who had been in the first ones to integrate the iPhone into his cars, will propose a kit that allows customers who have an Apple smartphone to use with a range of services, including voice recognition Siri. The service will initially be offered on the Class A, then a few months later on Classes B, C and E. This "Drive Plus Kit" will be different, from the kit for iPhone already developed at Smart. The firm intends to star in the investments in applications and regularly offer new services to its customers remain connected.

Mercedes Wants To Make His Cars Smartphones On 4 Wheels

The Geneva Motor Show will be an opportunity to discover this new interface - that Mercedes calls a revolutionary Class A. With this kit, which doubles as an application, developed internally, drivers will have access to all content on their iPhone with a screen display of the vehicle and a wheel on the center armrest. In addition, the system is controlled by voice. He takes into effect the smart companion SIRI of the iPhone 4S. Natural language, we can thus select music, check weather forecasts or dictate text messages and e-mail.

The kit of Mercedes, which is compatible with the input audio range, offers the following services:

- a bouquet of web radios with Aupeo
- Access to social networks (Facebook, Twitter)
- The stock price
- A Garmin navigation system with 3D maps and real-time traffic
- Automatic memory of the location of the vehicle (Car Finder).

The other new feature is contextual display and location-based content of the menu under "social", "Media" and "Places." This is a continuation of what was shown at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas.



In addition to the iPhone kit, Mercedes also intends to propose applications for customers using the multimedia system COMAND Online, via a smartphone connected by Bluetooth. Starting from a online store, users can expand the navigation system, which already offers innovative applications like Google Local search, including Google Street View and Panoramio. Daimler, which plans to offer a dozen new applications a year, has set up development groups both in Palo Alto, California, and Bangalore, India.

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