The vehicle above is the new 2011 Lincoln MKX. This 5-passenger crossover has been given the new corporate grille that has been seen on the Lincoln MKS, MKZ and MKT. New to any vehicle in Ford’s lineup is MyLincoln Touch. MyLincoln Touch is the name for the new SYNC and signature Human Machine Interface that allows just about every function of the vehicle to be controlled by simple voice commands. There are also no buttons on the center stack, that’s right folks, none! For more details, head on over to Jalopnik.
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Alan Mulally, Ford’s CEO, gave the keynote speech at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. The full details of the show are available at Engadget.
Basically Mulally detailed the various new technologies Ford will be offering consumers in the coming years, such as the ability to stream and control Pandora using SYNC, new car safety technologies and much more. Basically, the future has never looked brighter for the Domestic automakers.
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Jalopnik offers an in-depth article on Ford’s new “MyFord” and “MyLincoln” touch screen systems!
Ford led the auto industry with in-car infotainment systems when it released its super successful SYNC system. SYNC allowed phone and MP3 player control with simple voice commands. Several years have now passed and SYNC has seen its share of upgrades including the ability to dial 911 on your phone for you if you are involved in an accident!
Well Ford has decided to up the ante a bit and has released its newest system at the Consumer Electronics Show and its called “MyFord” (or “MyLincoln” in a Lincoln automobile.) The system is supposedly very straight forward and will allow vast amounts of control over your phone, climate control, navigation system and entertainment system with voice commands and controls mounted on the steering wheel.
For more on the system, as well as tons of screen shots, head on over to Jalopnik!
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Check out Ford’s latest SYNC apps and also their new instrument cluster!
This first video shows the next generation of SYNC that will allow control of phone applications such as Pandora. This will basically allow unlimited music channels in your car, provided you have cell phone coverage of course.
The second video shows you how you will be able to control the various functions of your car with Ford’s next generation Human Machine Interface. It all looks really amazing and early reports are saying that the system functions beautifully. For all of the details, head on over to Autoblog.
Ford will announce another innovative feature on its SYNC in car infotainment system. The system will allow users to “tag” a song while driving. What is tagging exactly? Well, say you’re driving and you hear a song you really like, and want to know what it is. You press the “tag” button and SYNC will store the song name and artist. Once you plug in your iPod it will download the list and then when you connect to your computer, iTunes will automatically bring up the songs you tagged, allowing you to preview them and then purchase if you’d like. For more details, head on over to Autoblog.
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Ford has announced that it will be offering SYNC as an open source program, meaning that independent developers will be able to create applications for SYNC. This is great news meaning the capability and usefulness of SYNC will just expand year over year as more apps become available.
Every great piece of software needs a trial run, so Ford turned to students from the University of Michigan to help write some trial apps for SYNC. The idea sounds really interesting and you can check out all of the details on the few apps seen over at Autoblog.
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Ford will use its SYNC system and a USB modem to offer passengers in Ford’s vehicles to surf the web while driving. Ford joins just a handful of other automakers to offer the service to its vehicles installed from the dealership. For more details, head on over to cnet.com or sci-tech today.
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Ford to offer upgraded SYNC, possibly for iPhone-like apps!
Ford has been working hard to keep its in-car connectivity software, SYNC, in the lead of other infotainment systems. The system currently lets you control your MP3 player and cell phone through a bluetooth connection, it can also give you directions along with weather, traffic and gas prices in your area. Well, Ford has an upgrade that it will be showing this January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas called “mobile apps.” There is currently no word on exactly what this upgrade means, but speculation is that it will allow SYNC to control your applications like Pandora or Twitter. For more, stay tuned, but for now, head on over to the Detroit News.
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Ford earns CES innovation awards for Sync and Work Solutions!
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this coming January sounds to me like one big Ford commercial! They were awarded with the key note address (to be given by CEO Alan Mulally) and then it was announced that the 2010 Ford Taurus is the Official Car of CES. Now comes word that Ford was given awards for both the Sync connectivity software and the Work Solutions system for businesses on the go. For more details, head on over to Autoblog.
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Ford has reportedly offered its support of the October 22nd launch of Windows 7 to Microsoft. Ford will switch all its computers over to Windows 7 and will probably advertise using its SYNC infotainment system. For more details on the support plan, head on over to AutoObserver, Bloomberg, or Autoblog.
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