http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/ Engadget Comments for Next-gen Ford Sync adding WiFi hotspot capabilities, you provide the 3G modem http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Woooshhh....
(the sound of a joke flying over your head)]]>Dec 21st 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/
agreed! And that is coming from an avid Sirius listener.]]>Dec 21st 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/
With their approach, you have the option to unplug the modem or mifi, and take it with you, at no extra cost.]]>Dec 21st 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/
Peter Griffin.... haha love that episode!]]>Dec 21st 2009 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/
Is it really that unpleasant to plug your phone in? Does it look ugly, stowed away in your center console? Are you too busy to spend the 3 seconds required in order to physically plug it in?

Different strokes for different folks, but more than anything, I prefer CHARGING my device while I drive, as opposed to killing the battery life by streaming Bluetooth stereo. One option means that you exit your car with a fresh charge, and the other option pretty much ensures that you won't have a fresh charge.



]]>Dec 21st 2009 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/
This is your phone, a device you want to have with you all the time. So if you go on an errand run and go into 3 places, that means you are plugging in and unplugging your phone 4 times so that it is with you in each store. Stop at Starbucks too? That's another time. I know in theory you could leave your phone in the car while you go in to get that coffee, but in my experience people won't do it, they feel naked without their phone now.]]>Dec 21st 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.syncmyride.com. Ford's SYNC system has worked on Bluetooth since 2007. No plugging in requried.

This latest development is for making the car a wifi hotspot for other devices, like passengers' laptops or gaming devices.

Scott Monty
Global Digital Communications
Ford Motor Company
]]>Dec 21st 2009 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/
Let me put it another way. Is it all that big a deal to just put the key in the door of the car and turn it? It only takes a few seconds. It's easier than opening the console of your car and plugging in a phone. So you wouldn't mind if on your next car it didn't have wireless unlocking, right? No biggie. But actually, turns out people love and demand wireless unlocking now. In fact, the rage now is not even having to put the key into the ignition, you just sit down and start the car with a button. People seem to like that too.

I do agree people would only sometimes plug the phone in, which means ideas like using Pandora become less likely, unless you like using it only part time.

This is going the wrong direction. And to be honest, it isn't even a real option for most phones. Most smartphones won't tether in the US because the wireless carriers disallow it. If they do allow it, it is $60 per month ($30 more than without the tether feature). And a lot of dumphones won't tether because they don't have the capability.

I firmly believe cars being connected is the future. No one likes searching an out of date database for a store and not finding it. When you select a destination on your NAV in the future, it will either come from a private database (contacts/friends you entered) or it'll come from the internet. So connectivity like this is the future and we'll have it ironed out at some point and every NAV will have it within a decade. But this particular method won't be how it is done, it's too inconvenient. I can't search for destinations, get traffic data or radio because I didn't plug my phone on? Not going to fly.]]>Dec 21st 2009 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/
So it's just this then:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/gm-to-offer-500-autonet-mobile-wifi-option-in-select-vehicles/

except for how it is billed?]]>Dec 21st 2009 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/This technology is already on the shelves!
If you are going to put a 3g connection in the car, do it properly or not at all. "Its all about wireless stupid"
Ford, Missed opportunity methinks. ]]>Dec 21st 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/
No need to purchase a MiFi or module if you already have a WM handset. WMWifiRouter Rules!!!! www.wmwifirouter.com]]>Dec 21st 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/
As some one who had a WM phone and WMWiFiRouter?

It was great. But it was about the only reason i preferred a WM phone over a Palm Pre. (unfortunately the new update killed tethering on the Pre.).

But I already have a 3G modem. So this works fine for me (provided, of course, it WORKS with my modem). Makes me wanna hold off on buying a Raptor until 2011]]>Dec 21st 2009 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Sorry about your WM loss :P
Haters can hate it all they want, but it's the most "open" mobile OS out there, in terms of what programs you can and can't run; the limits are limitless -- no limits :) I hate someone telling me what I can and can't do with a device that I paid for with my own money. Fuck that.
I have the Omnia2 now and WMWR works GREAT on it, no need for a tethering plan and no need to buy an external 3g modem.]]>Dec 21st 2009 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/
I will NEVER... EVER... buy a car that depends on Microsoft software for ANYTHING... No Sync.. No Way

sorry charlie...

]]>Dec 21st 2009 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/
If only they could put it in say, a 95 Chevy S10 that someone may have conveniently inherited from his grandparents, then that person would finally have a new stereo system that plays nice with his Zune. just sayin.

Although in reailty I'll take ANY new stereo that plays nice with my Zune at this point]]>Dec 21st 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/I do like the emergency crash 911 call-automation.. ]]>Dec 21st 2009 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/Dec 21st 2009 10:46PM