Apple to develop sat nav and in-car entertainment system for Mercedes Benz

Apple LogoInterface experts Apple is supposedly working on a satellite navigation interface cum in-car entertainment system for DaimlerChrysler to use in it’s Mercedes Benz cars.

This new “iNav” (just guessing what it could be called, couldn’t be iDrive as BMW has used that) will be available in Mercedes Benz cars from 2009 early onwards exclusively for six months, of which after that period it’s a free for all for any manufacturer to adopt Apple’s satellite nav system.

Both Apple’s iPod and even the new iPhone have had support from both car manufacturers and aftermarket car accessory makers, with the latest BMW iDrive supporting both iPod and iPhone control.

Most mid to high end aftermarket head units also support direct iPod control instead of just accepting input through an aux interface.

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  • nmh (Member) on Jul 08, 2007 at 6:11 am

    Dont forget to put all in one multimedia card reader as another medium to read the mp3 files, it might replace cd in future. And USB too. Other wishlist for ICE, post here and hope the manufacturer listen to our voice bcoz all ICE in future is built in…dah xleh change barang aftermarket

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  • kei9 (Member) on Jul 08, 2007 at 6:26 am

    replace cd? blu-ray? HD-DVD??

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  • mystvearn (Member) on Jul 08, 2007 at 6:59 am

    Cool idea.

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  • hyundai (Member) on Jul 08, 2007 at 7:25 am

    wow! a cool system… hope tat it will not be as complicate as BMW i-drive

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  • szw (Member) on Jul 08, 2007 at 7:33 am

    prologic7 quality ?

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  • PTAllTheBest (Member) on Jul 08, 2007 at 12:01 pm

    apple is currently wants to expand its market. the newest iPhone sells for 600usd in america and must tied with at&t for 2 years of contract.

    ohh! and btw, i never know that the iDrive is from apple.

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  • danoneism (Member) on Jul 08, 2007 at 8:31 pm

    cool idea….

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  • Paul Tan on Jul 09, 2007 at 2:41 am

    iDrive is not from apple.

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  • amad_a (Member) on Jul 09, 2007 at 5:13 am

    iPhone ain't 3G enable..that sucks!

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  • PTAllTheBest (Member) on Jul 09, 2007 at 7:28 pm

    iDrive is not from apple??? thats good. at first i thought that because of the "i" word. now everything from apple got "i".

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  • amad_a (Member) on Jul 09, 2007 at 7:31 pm

    not necessary..

    for instance: iRiver is actually from Creative to compete with iPod

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  • kei9 (Member) on Jul 09, 2007 at 10:22 pm

    so..anyone planned to buy the iphone next year? i dun think its dat goood leh….if ur a heavy user internet on the go..ok lah but other smartphone is better…..and ppls like use always use BM and manglish, the iphone will bw a bit frustrating.cos it got this spelling deection thingy..thats always ON.

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  • kimisawa (Member) on Jul 09, 2007 at 11:02 pm

    I have a feeling they're gonna incorporate some of the patented technologies from the iPhone like the accelerometers, multi-touch screen functions and other intuitive stuff. The accelerometers will detect changes on the road surface and tell you if you've gone off-road and headed towards a cliff. And if you've crashed, it will tell you you've just crashed.

    The multi-touch feature is useful for zooming into pictures of Siti Nurhaliza for the men and the two angkasawans for the ladies.

    It will also incorporate a shining aluminum back cover, although nobody will be able to see it.

    But most importantly, when you start the car, instead of hearing the engine crank, it will go, "Tunggggggg"

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  • transformer (Member) on Jul 10, 2007 at 7:01 am

    without 3G the iPHONE would be a fad soon…

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  • Mayonaise (Member) on Jul 10, 2007 at 8:51 am

    Thank God they didn't commission Microsoft to do it… LOL!

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