 Gadget of the Year: Ford Sync puts music -- including Internet radio -- into your dashboard ·Dec 27, 07:23 AM From the Detroit Free Press: The best feature to come from any car company in years, Ford’s new Sync system improves safety, convenience and communications. The breakthrough system also shows how automakers can team up with the consumer Best of all, it’s affordable. Many automakers would have slapped a $1,000 price tag on it, offering it only on expensive luxury models. True to its history, though, Ford chose to make the new technology available to the masses, launching the innovative system on its low-priced Focus compact and quickly rolling it out across the Ford, Lincoln and Mercury model lines. Sync, which Ford developed with Microsoft, allows the driver to use spoken commands to control a mobile phone and iPod-type music players. Telephone calls are piped in through the audio system, and you respond through an effective microphone in the car. It also reads text messages to you. Read the full article here. RAIN analysis: And if your smartphone has the ability to play Internet radio, as millions of Palm OS, Windows Mobile OS, and Symbian OS (e.g., Nokia) devices do, the Sync allows a wireless connection between your Internet-connected device and your dashboard to conveniently listen to Internet radio stations on your car stereo. —KH share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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