New Version of Ford AppLink Brings Smartphone Navigation Apps to SYNC 3 for Touch Screen Access
12 Gennaio 2015 - 3:30PM
Business Wire
- New, enhanced Ford SYNC® AppLink™ 3.0
allows projection of moving graphics – such as maps from
smartphones – onto in-vehicle touch screens
- Ford accelerates smartphone app
integration innovation by actively contributing to SmartDeviceLink
open-source project
- Ford, in collaboration with Alibaba
Group, integrates smartphone-based navigation through
SmartDeviceLink; will lead to future implementation on SYNC via
AppLink 3.0
Weeks after Ford introduced its next-generation SYNC® 3
in-vehicle connectivity system, the company today announced it is
rolling out Ford SYNC AppLink™ 3.0 next year, giving customers the
ability to access their favorite compatible navigation app – much
as they do on a smartphone – on in-vehicle touch screens.
“With each new version of AppLink, we’re improving the in-car
experience with better integration of smartphone apps and easier
ways for customers to access and control the content they love,”
said Joe Beiser, Ford director, Connected Services for Europe, Asia
Pacific and Africa. “The next version, AppLink 3.0, leverages
open-source SmartDeviceLink functionality to give developers a
method to project graphics – such as maps – onto our vehicle touch
screens.”
This next version of AppLink benefits from the open-source
SmartDeviceLink initiative that is driving new feature innovation.
As part of that project, Ford is working with Alibaba, a global
consumer Internet service, to extend the group’s map, navigation
and music services to vehicles. This has led to the integration of
SmartDeviceLink into AutoNavi, Alibaba’s app for navigation
services, demonstrating how it can be projected onto a vehicle
touch screen for seamless use – just like on a smartphone.
The collaboration with Alibaba is also putting more emphasis on
development of SmartDeviceLink. Sharing Ford’s vision of a truly
open-source smartphone-linking technology, Alibaba will not only
integrate SmartDeviceLink into apps, but also become an active
contributor driving evolution of the project.
Commitment to SmartDeviceLink
This next version of AppLink is part of Ford’s implementation of
the open-source SmartDeviceLink technology that makes it easier for
developers to create smartphone apps that are compatible with
communications and entertainment systems from all automakers and
suppliers.
The mission of SmartDeviceLink is to standardize and simplify
the development process, and expand availability of in-car apps for
consumers with well-known and well-established open-source
methodology.
Ford, an active contributor to SmartDeviceLink, continues to
make enhancements accessible through Genivi with the intention of
expanding partnerships with mobile app developers. This will
increase the markets where SmartDeviceLink technology is available
and provide developers an easier path to getting their apps into
more vehicles.
Ford already has rolled out its AppLink technology globally,
including North America, South America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Three new markets are slated to come on board this year – Taiwan,
New Zealand and Thailand.
AppLink is part of the Ford SYNC system. SYNC allows drivers to
pair their mobile phones with a vehicle and control the radio, make
and receive calls, and operate more features hands-free using voice
controls.
By making AppLink software accessible to mobile app developers,
Ford is providing a platform to make apps respond to voice commands
through SYNC. Even with voice commands, customers should only use
their SYNC system when it is safe to do so.
Upon launch later this year, SYNC 3 will include Ford’s current
version of AppLink. The next version, AppLink 3.0, will be
available at a later date. Information about Ford’s new
communications and entertainment system, SYNC 3, can be found at
media.ford.com.
About Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in
Dearborn, Michigan, manufactures or distributes automobiles across
six continents. With about 189,000 employees and 65 plants
worldwide, the company’s automotive brands include Ford and
Lincoln. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor
Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford and its
products worldwide, please visit http://corporate.ford.com.
For news releases, related materials and
high-resolution photos and video, visit www.media.ford.com.
Ford Motor CompanyAlan Hall734.845.4410ahall32@ford.comorEmily
Olin281.380.9661emily.olin@hkstrategies.com
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