Bluetooth, iPods, HDDs to define in-car tech in 2009
Bluetooth, iPod connections, embedded hard drives and real-time location-based traffic monitoring will all be increasingly popular features in cars next year, an analyst has predicted.
Market watcher iSuppli has forecast that, in the US, the number of car manufacturers “aggressively adopting” Bluetooth wireless connections will …
...the useful thing here would have been for them to notice the trend that Apple were removing Firewire capabilities from iPods over the past few generations and as such the majority of in car systems, which charge an iPod via Firewire don't work on iPhone 3G's, new Nano's etc etc... something that Apple outlined a couple of years ago.
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Bluetooth, iPods, HDDs to define in-car tech in 2009
Bluetooth, iPod connections, embedded hard drives and real-time location-based traffic monitoring will all be increasingly popular features in cars next year, an analyst has predicted. Market watcher iSuppli has forecast that, in the US, the number of car manufacturers “aggressively adopting” Bluetooth wireless connections will …
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Posted Friday 10th October 2008 12:01 GMT
Anonymous Coward
the Focus of this article*. #
Love the way the first car that came to mind when el reg thought about 2009 in-car tech was a first-gen Ford Focus.
*Geddit? Mines the one with the crowbar and slim jim sticking out the pocket.
Posted Monday 13th October 2008 11:37 GMT
Scott Mckenzie
Grrrr... #
...the useful thing here would have been for them to notice the trend that Apple were removing Firewire capabilities from iPods over the past few generations and as such the majority of in car systems, which charge an iPod via Firewire don't work on iPhone 3G's, new Nano's etc etc... something that Apple outlined a couple of years ago.
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