BlackBerry may soon be featured in Ford vehicles
Posted Feb 24, 2014 09:41:29 AM.
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A report this morning suggests BlackBerry may be poised to team up with the Ford Motor Company.
Bloomberg News reports, Ford is ditching Microsoft Windows and will base it’s next-generation in-car information system on BlackBerry technology.
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Ford currently uses the Sync information system, using Microsoft voice-activated software to make mobile-phone calls and play music.
However, there have been issues with that technology, so now it’s looking to BlackBerry’s Q-N-X system.
For one thing, it is less expensive than licensing Microsoft Windows technology and will improve the flexibility and speed of the next Sync system.
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