HTC is best known for its handsets running Windows Mobile and increasingly, Android. But did you know that they've built a full-on car computer in Taiwan? THINK+, as it's known, embeds GPS navigation, 3.5G communications, and a big ol' integrated 10.2-inch display inside of Taiwan's new LUXGEN 7 MPV to give it a range of functions including voice-activated calling, SMS read-back, media playback from USB devices, car diagnostics, night vision, parking assist, and enough cameras to give a 360-degree and top-down view. Unfortunately, the UI looks to be entirely utilitarian lacking any of the TouchFlo gymnastics we're used to seeing. Then again, would you really feel safe operating a button-less touchscreen while driving a car? Check a sample video after the break or hit-up
Autoblog for the full story.
[Via
Engadget Chinese]
Read -- THINK+ demo
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posted Aug 24th 2009 8:58AM
Slick.
Just don't slap a 528 MHz Qualcomm chip in there and you should be gold HTC.
Oh, and if you do, pay the extra buck and some change for the 3D drivers this time around, mk?
Thats what pisses me off about HTC. They dont go that extra mile. My Touch Cruise didnt have 3D drivers either. And software updates? I will be in my grave before i see another one.
It will be left up to the customers to fix all the bugs :-P
Thank God for XDA-developers, PPCGeeks.
They've given new life to my HTC devices, but I'll be damned if I buy another HTC unless it comes with either a Snapdragon or Tegra chipset.
Thank God for XDA-developers, PPCGeeks
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Indeed My friend
I am not driving this car then.. It will glitch like shait and i will crash.. with no alcohol or texting experience whatsoever..
Woww, This car is a hero! It's magical, and makes me feel like living in a dream!
Dreaming of being a Kaiser or a TyTn ?
Maybe he's a Prophet.
Now we're really going to have to pull over to the side of the road to reboot.
made in taiwan?
no thanks, i;ll stick with my superior mane in good ol usa than you very much...
BUY AMERICAM... OBAMER told me to do so...
Good luck with that. No, I'm not being sarcastic - I wish you all the best.
Sorry, I was using one of those 'made in taiwan' flexible keyboards...
figures...
Cause all items made in the USofA are quality? R-tard, have you been to a walmart lately. All US, all garbage. Get a clue, it's not the 50's anymore. America, is failing.
American cars? Quality? What are you smoking?
"have you been to a walmart lately. All US, all garbage"
When complaining about Wal-Mart products being so cheap because they're all made in China didn't work, the idiots try to take it in the opposite direction.
"American cars? Quality? What are you smoking?"
I don't know if you've been keeping up with the news lately, but Ford's really stepped up their game lately.
That's funny, Fords are made in Canada and Mexico, GM is made in, wait, do they still make GM cars? I think that's it, all the other "American" car manufacturers are mostly foreign owned.
Whats cooler, is that the whole upper dash looks like it is all OLED.
Cause all items made in the USofA are quality? R-tard, have you been to a walmart lately. All US, all garbage. Get a clue, it's not the 50's anymore. America, is failing.
See!!!! No doubt, this comment system was developed in the US.
Above comment was intended as a reply to Hard_Facts.
Is it just me or when anyone sees any display with chinese characters you automatically assume its of cheap quality and fake? And vice versa with japanese text.
Hm, so what do you do when it's one of those cases when kanji would take care of everything? I would like identical. e.g. "Safety".
*it would
Wonder if it lags when you wanna accelerate?
2009, and our cars still have too many buttons on the center console, no different (or even worse) than 1999. Why can't a car manufacture make a simplified user-friendly center console with touch UI?
When you spend enough time with a system (like say, your car that you drive to work every day), you learn to control the physical buttons without looking. This is the reason most people prefer physical keyboards over virtual ones. On a cell phone, it's about speed and convenience, but there's a lot more at stake if you look at your radio or AC controls while driving than if you look at your keyboard while texting.
...Did they say nightvision? wtf!
Several cars have thermal cameras in them now. I hope that's what they mean with this car. Light amplification systems (night vision) would suck on a car. Thermal is the way to go, you don't have to worry about oncoming traffic's headlights blinding the system.
Is this the first real prototype for a Kitt car? I think so.
Does it have a Ext USB port or a real 3.5mm headphone jack?
Leave it to the zealots to argue foreign vs. American car quality when the story has nothing to do with the topic whatsoever. This car looks awesome, enough said. Moreover, Ford and Chrysler HAVE indeed stepped up their game and producing reliable vehicles, so get your facts straight. GM still has a lot of work to do but they have potential. They're ditching the Pontiac brand.