New Car Kit Brings Android to Toyota and Lexus OEM Radios
By Amy Gilroy If you have an Android phone and drive a Toyota or Lexus (Toyota Motor Corporation, NYSE:TM), a new kit due this July should help you control your phone from the car radio. VAIS...
View ArticleSmartphone to Car Radio Patent Awarded
By Amy Gilroy A patent that covers many wireless and voice recognition smartphone connections to a car radio or video system has been awarded to Ira Marlowe the owner of Blitzsafe, a car interface...
View ArticleNew Samsung Galaxy S III Smartphone Breaks Into the Dashboard with...
By Amy Gilroy The new Samsung Galaxy S III won headlines last week for its many intelligent features plus a dazzling screen even larger than that of the hot selling Galaxy S II. You can see some of the...
View ArticleGarmin (NASDAQ:GRMN) Alters the Touchscreen for OEM Car Infotainment Systems
By Amy Gilroy Garmin (NASDAQ:GRMN) showed a new concept for OEM car infotainment systems that uses a controller knob filled with sensors for many functions, instead of a touchscreen. It also uses...
View ArticleNew Apple iPhone to Play Catch-Up to Samsung
By Michael Tarsala The next-generation Apple iPhone (NASDAQ:AAPL) is now being manufactured, and it will use so-called “in-cell technology” to make the screen thinner, the Wall Street Journal reports....
View ArticleToyota (NYSE:TM) Offers MirrorLink (Terminal Mode) Radio in Europe
By William Damsky According to CNET, Toyota’s (NYSE:TM) European Touch Life infotainment system is the first OEM platform permitting a true mirror image of the smartphone on the car’s in-dash display....
View ArticleSirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI): Audi “Google Car” Due April Uses T-Mobile, Sirius...
By Amy Gilroy Audi announced that T-Mobile USA (Deutsche Telekom, ETR:DTE), soon to become AT&T (NYSE:T), will be the wireless carrier for the 2012 A7, bearing one of the highest tech audio/traffic...
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