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Following the announcement of their MyTouch in-car interface (based on Microsoft Sync software) earlier this year, today Ford announced the next component of that technology called AppLink.
The new addition to the system allows drivers to navigate mobile apps on a device using Bluetooth (no data plan required) to connect to the vehicle’s controls or voice commands—starting with the 2011 Fiesta, with all Ford and Lincoln models to follow eventually. While the initial launch supports programs developed for BlackBerry and Android platforms, a version coming this fall will include Apple’s too.
Along with apps such as Pandora, Stitcher and OpenBeak (for Twitter), which will all work for this debut, Ford is also introducing the Mobile Application Developer Network. The community platform for outside developers invites them to work with Ford on creating new compatible applications, also ensuring that competing standards don’t unnecessarily proliferate.
Another new bonus, working with Seattle’s transportation software firm Airbiquity, Ford’s Sync system can now also transmit data over the mobile voice network, including monitoring of GPS data, fuel economy and odometer reading. For example, a driver using the system to call Sync Services for directions receives answers based on real-time traffic information. Once it locates the data, the system sends that information to the car and reads it aloud. If the driver veers off the path, the system automatically redials Sync Services to reroute.
The Sync system (necessary to run the free AppLink) starts at $395 as an add-on to several models, see a Ford dealer for purchasing.
Watchismo has an exclusive look at Celsius X VI II‘s first product, an impressive merging of a mobile phone with a tourbillion watch that integrates a patented rewinding mechanism hidden within its hinge. The upshot of over three years of development and based on complex micromechanics, opening the phone activates the internal device.
Inspired by tourbillion watches—invented in the late 18th century to offset the supposed effects of gravity on accuracy by rotating a full 360º within a cage—Celsius’ love for mechanical triumphs of centuries past permeates the many components of the the Papillon. Made using 547 mechanical components (most of them hand-finished), the new gadget strives for “the dream of a completely mechanical mobile phone: a phone in which every function will operate mechanically, solely through human energy.”
To produce the hybrid, Celsius collaborated with renowned watchmaker Richard Mille and horological design team Confrérie Horlogère. The upshot is a true example of excellence in design, expertly combining mechanical and technological achievements into a gorgeously sleek simple black body.
German-based international watch and jewelry fair BaselWorld will host the launch of this remarkable phone when it’s unveiled next week with a price of $275,000.
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