Audi will develop android car - ZDNet.nl

Summary: In order to create value for its infotainment system, more opportunities like the German car manufacturer Audi like to move on Android

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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is every year guarantees many interesting announcements. In the next edition, from 7 to 10 January, there will be one of carmaker Audi, which will collaborate to use the infotainment system in cars.

Google Android

In previous years, the Audi used CES to show. high-tech developments Earlier, the German manufacturer gave this year to disclose. Laser Light Concept Cars The Android notification is otherwise probably not accompanied by a live demonstration.

Google the Audi’s current collaboration with Google integrates the Google Earth images and Street View with the navigation system of the car. And although the current infotainment software is very well developed, the company which still lacks in installing apps. The use of Android would make this a lot easier.

customized version of Android will have much in common with what you find on phones and tablets. This is because Audi like to keep tight control over which apps are allowed to avoid liability. In addition, it has to do with a piece of quality.

Interface
Chances are incidentally present the interface for the client does not change. The company has invested heavily in developing the multimedia controller and the associated touchpad. A touchscreen does not fit the current Audi design.

This development has no effect on the hands-free calling with the system, no matter what brand of phone the driver. Audi wants herein namely remain impartial.

San Francisco
The bulk of the development of the infotainment system takes place at Volkswagen’s Electronics Research Laboratory in San Francisco, where Google has an office. This benefit cooperation.

cars Audi currently have a mobile data connection, which is used to transfer images from Google Earth and other sources of information to send. At the Los Angeles Auto Show, the company announced that a 4G connection is in the new A3 model.

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Forecast
The expectation is that it takes at least a year before the first Android-Audi cars are available. The A3, the biggest launch this year, works have already been developed and tested software. The A4 is to be updated, but the chances are that the development of this model even though quite a distance on the way.

Then the larger ones remain – A6, A7 and A8 – over. Which are suitable for an extensive infotainment update in 2015.