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05-19-2007, 10:13 PM
Eventually, the system will be available across the Ford Lincoln and Mercury brands. (http://media.ford.com/newsroom/feature_display.cfm?release=25316)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/550/SYNC_Graphic.jpgMike Thomas - Ford Communications - May 14, 2007
Sync allows consumers to bring almost every mobile phone or digital media player into their vehicles and operate them by voice command, or by using the steering wheel or radio controls. The first automobile to receive the Ford “Sync” will be the 2008 Ford Focus which in itself had a mid-model year makeover.
DEARBORN - If there was ever a product plugged directly into contemporary lifestyles, it's Ford Sync™, a new communications and entertainment system developed by Ford and Microsoft.
The hands-free wireless system enables drivers to control cell phones and MP3 players using controls mounted on the steering wheel or radio or verbal commands. Sync users can call friends and answer incoming cell-phone calls, read text messages aloud, send text replies from a list of preprogrammed messages and access songs from iPods or MP3 players by artist, album, title, genre or playlist.
With such industry-first features it's no wonder Sync won the cnet.com People's Voice award at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, and no surprise that Ford's Web site for Sync is not your traditional automobile site.
On Syncmyride.com (http://www.syncmyride.com/), an opening movie features "Laura," a young woman headed to a party. Using Sync, she calls friends, checks her playlists, has text messages read to her and chooses songs for the party, all with simple voice commands … http://media.ford.com/newsroom/feature_display.cfm?release=25316
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/550/SYNC_Graphic.jpgMike Thomas - Ford Communications - May 14, 2007
Sync allows consumers to bring almost every mobile phone or digital media player into their vehicles and operate them by voice command, or by using the steering wheel or radio controls. The first automobile to receive the Ford “Sync” will be the 2008 Ford Focus which in itself had a mid-model year makeover.
DEARBORN - If there was ever a product plugged directly into contemporary lifestyles, it's Ford Sync™, a new communications and entertainment system developed by Ford and Microsoft.
The hands-free wireless system enables drivers to control cell phones and MP3 players using controls mounted on the steering wheel or radio or verbal commands. Sync users can call friends and answer incoming cell-phone calls, read text messages aloud, send text replies from a list of preprogrammed messages and access songs from iPods or MP3 players by artist, album, title, genre or playlist.
With such industry-first features it's no wonder Sync won the cnet.com People's Voice award at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, and no surprise that Ford's Web site for Sync is not your traditional automobile site.
On Syncmyride.com (http://www.syncmyride.com/), an opening movie features "Laura," a young woman headed to a party. Using Sync, she calls friends, checks her playlists, has text messages read to her and chooses songs for the party, all with simple voice commands … http://media.ford.com/newsroom/feature_display.cfm?release=25316