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Friday, January 26, 2007

PDA, smartphone syncing for Ford vehicles.




"The Ford Motor Co. is introducing the first vehicles with Microsoft's Sync software, which allows a car to connect to a variety of Bluetooth and USB devices, including PDAs, smart phones, music players and cell phones", reports eWeek.



Features include:





  • support for iPod, USB thumb drivers, Zune and PlaysForSure devices.

  • voice recognition to control phone and recognize music track titles.

  • speech system to read text messages and provide canned replies.

  • use call list from the handset to make calls.