Clarion and Nokia Team Up on Connected Car Technology

Aug 25, 2010
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Collaboration aims at perfecting new ways to have mobile devices and car infotainment systems to work seamlessly together.

Today Bluetooth enabled car systems can easily support most of your smart phone applications. By simply syncing your Bluetooth phone with the cars entertainment console you can now receive calls, get SMS alerts, check your call logs, play music from your phone and the list just goes on.

With more and more phone applications are finding themselves on our auto infotainment screens, global leader in car audio and electronics Clarion Co., Ltd, and one of the world’s leading mobile phone makers Nokia Corporation, are now collaborating on developing a Terminal Mode, i.e. a technology that will enable a new and a far more innovative way of getting mobile devices and car infotainment systems to seamlessly work together. Both companies say this collaboration will further boost the development of next-generation smart car infotainment systems.

Through this partnership Clarion aims to develop the smartphone interface that Nokia and Consumer Electronics for Automotive, CE4A are proposing as industry standard, as well as to build an application service business for in-car devices utilising the Ovi Store application service by Nokia.

“By integrating the Terminal Mode technology into in-car information systems such as car navigation developed by Clarion, we will be able to bring to customers the vast array of applications and services available to smartphones on in-car devices. The integration of in-car devices with smartphones will provide better user experiences for consumers and lead to radical changes in in-car information systems,” says Tatsuhiko Izumi, president of Clarion.

NAVTEQ, which supplies map information for our Clarion’s car navigation systems in the overseas markets will now work with Nokia in order to develop smartphone functions and services that will be best suited for in-car information system functions and support services such as intelligent transport systems (ITS), advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and navigation coordination.

“We are already committed to collaboration with the automotive industry and this alliance with Clarion will further improve the user experience in the car and enable consumers to access their favourite internet services and smartphone applications, wherever they are,” says Vesa Luiro, Automotive Director at Nokia.

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