Many cars are utilizing the latest technology to make your driving experience more convenient. From Bluetooth to Pandora to even downloading your address book to your car, there are so many ways you can do almost anything your phone can do, through your car. Today over 40% of mobile phone users have smart phones. But what if you have not jumped on the bandwagon and you still use a low tech phone? Are all of these handy features lost to you? Well, not necessarily.
Many cars use on in-car communication and entertainment system. Ford’s is called My Ford Touch, it was developed by the Ford Motor Company and Microsoft. My Ford Touch can do everything from providing navigation, to using voice commands to communicate with your car, to connecting to audio devices such as phones and MP3 players. Ford has taken the time to develop a web site that will help cell phone uses see just what phones will work with what features of My Ford Touch. Some phones can utilize all features, while others, only some. And yet others are not compatible at all. Syncmyride.com is the place to see what features you phone will work with, or to even find a new phone that will allow you to get the most out of the system. Ford does not endorse any phones on this list, and has simply taken the time to test these phones in order to provide you, the customer, with the best up to date information when understanding how your phone can work with the system and when choosing a new phone.
If you are still pretty happy with your old style flip phone, but would like to utilize some of new features available to you on this system, there is one phone that Ford has tested that keeps the learning curve down, and the usability up. The LG Cosmo 2, available with Verizon, keeps it simple. While it does the look, and many features, that a smart phone does, it also keeps the choices simple. It has a regular keypad that you can use for dialing, a slide out keyboard for easy texting, and a few simple smart phone style options like emailing, social networking options, plays music and even has a camera. Ford does not endorse this phone, but simple tested it, along with many other phones, and found this particular model to be very user friendly for those that prefer a less techie phone, but can still utilize many of the features in My Ford Touch.
You can learn more, and order it, through Amazon , http://www.amazon.com/cell-phones-accessories/dp/B005AXY6KW
To check out almost any phone, and what features it will work with in My Ford Touch, go to syncmyride.com and check out the compatibility chart.