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on Saturday December 13 2014, @05:14PM
from the BlackBerry-Inc-mops-its-brow dept.
from the BlackBerry-Inc-mops-its-brow dept.
El Reg reports
As foreshadowed in February, Ford has announced a new in-car entertainment and communications system that will run on BlackBerry's QNX real-time operating system, not Windows as is the case for the company's current efforts.
Ford Sync 3 will offer touch-screen and voice recognition controls. The latter will allow drivers to command both their vehicle and apps on their phone. Siri control is another feature.
The auto-maker's offered a touch-screen system for some time now, but it's widely regarded as one of its weak points. A complete refresh on a new operating system therefore looks like a good move.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday December 14 2014, @12:58PM
Its a strange market bifurcation. I have a Toyota commuter car, and from the car point of view, the UI is nothing more than a 2300 pound gasoline powered bluetooth speaker. Thats the entire UI, once I paired to it all that happens is magically sound comes out of the car instead of out of the phone. And that's exactly the way I like it and its what I shopped for and specifically selected. At the other end we have car mfgrs trying to turn their car into the phone itself, which must be weird.
Its like comparing the market for gaudy 80s era plastic and chrome boom boxes, vs the market for those car stereo "brick" amplifiers that are 99% heatsink. There's not much overlap other than coincidentally.