I knew this was definitely coming sooner or later – you will soon be able to read your Blackberry push emails on your BMW’s iDrive. This has nothing to do with Blackberry maker RIM buying the QNX operating system that iDrive is based on. Instead, iDrive is accessing the emails on the Blackberry using the Bluetooth Message Access Profile feature.
You can watch a quick video walkthrough of the system in the video above. iDrive can even read out the text of your email so you can still “listen” to your email while you are driving. So it looks like the next time Auto Bavaria has Celcom Blackberry promotions (they’ve had it before with the Blackberry Storm), it might just be pre-setup to work with your BMW’s iDrive!
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Good idea, if you don’t have anyone else in the car. But otherwise slightly dumb as you now have to read it on the dash, where if you want to do it in a traffic jam you will loose the sat-nav feature when thi thing is on. Reminds me those Amstrad telephones, Lord Sugar announced in 1998, read emails on your phone, good idea but never really work.
I read emails on my cellphone all the time. Tell me why it will never work. And tell me, who the f**k would check email while driving, isn’t it dangerous? It s the same as
texting while driving. Your argument is weak, come back with more constructive criticism.
What about typing your emails?
Why pair a device to the dashboard just to read it when you can read it on the device. People will use it on the road-cause its mounted to the car. No one will just use it to read emails while the car is stationary in a car park. Its dangerous to text, while driving, people still do it. All I can see is this really is one big show-off gadget.
how bout nexus one ?
i had bad experiences with blackberry (bold 9000)… but that on a different issue… i wonder incoming email in a (fast) car like these car be hazardous…
imagine this…..
“You got mail… we sorry to inform you this but you just lost RM15mil in a Nigerian forex trading that we told you so NOT to get involved!”
Sincerely,
Your Empty Account Bank.
Que heart-attack @ 180km/h!
Even worse scnario:
Your Fired!
or maybe:
You lost 25mil in share investment: account -10mil now.
Or getting this from your mistress:
Darling, you coming over tonite? I made double boil soup & got new nightie
And your wife is in the car with you….
LMAO! That’s funny! ahahaha…
When it come to Malaysia? lolx~
I hope later can connect to CSL Blueberry also… hahaha!