Have You Driven a Ford Lately? New Technology Options For This Years Cars and Trucks

The news this week that Ford back in the black and impressive, as the sun came without a U.S. taxpayer identification number of the station. Coincidentally, I've seen a glimpse of two of the company's latest car, what are you with the installation of technology are doing and cam away with mixed feelings. Yes, you are in the right direction, albeit clumsily. And while few people buy a car because of the installed computing power available, they are becoming a larger portion of the equation, how we commute and spend more time working from home use. Ford has two very different computing programs going on, and sadly they are mutually exclusive by design. The latest attempt IS Called Ford Work Solutions, and it is only on its truck range available. The system is based on Windows CE with a 6.5-inch touch screen display in the dashboard, on a variety of programs, including a software suite of office applications (but not the real MS Office), LogMeIn, GPS, entertainment controls, and more. Yes, the LogMeIn. It comes with a wide variety of confusing options, including a Bluetooth keyboard, printer, and cellular data modem for broadband Internet connectivity. The ideal target buyer Is a builder who needs from the construction site or a delivery service work. You can scan documents and print them in the cabin, a remote control session back to your office to collect some data and surfing the Web to answer customer inquiries. The touch screen is a bit clunky, because some of the controls for your fingers on the screen instead are designed on the keyboard, and large target, it seemed well thought out. For example, you can not operate when the PC that I just can not shake the feeling could driving.But that I go back to the early days of the Web-TV and with outdated technology that was already before the time of his way found in many actual hotel rooms. Part of the challenge for policy-makers have for this is that is installed by the time of a computer in the vehicle, it is no longer current. Granted, this is a computer not do that you have to worry too much - Ford claim it will be brutal environments withstand - but it's still a Windows CE-based devices that are closer to my Uversa TV set-top box or my cell phone than the PC-phone, which I use to these lines I write in-dash PC essay.The Comes With A Few Things handy, though. It HAS SD card and USB ports directly on the dash so as to import you-can-files or connect to external data sources. Can you sync your phone contacts and do voice command option. It has the GPS display and your audio system controls, so you do not have to hunt around for 'em. And there is an optional tool-tracking software, RFID tags, Where You Can Stick to your tools and not a census immediately before leaving a construction site and make sure you leave everything back into the truck before. There Is Thusis vehicle tracking and scheduling software crew chief Called That One Chicago use pizza delivery service to match demand with supply, as the truck Their Own oven that the cake is done and get 'em call their customers can have pipelines. This seems to offer the most promise, if you can find out the options. Http: / / www.crewchief.microlise.com / Ford has to get a mediocre job done the word out about Work Solutions. Any attempt Theys Press lenders have-nots across the country - I had to find a locally available This was one of their corporate dealer trainers.The corporate website uses some information about who they do not meet moderate technical skills and more In fact, it turns on questions than it answers. You could do better and appeal to potential buyers and more IT-minded, rather than the big and brawny Joe Sixpack contractor. (Actually, that the contractor has currently using my wife interior designer fairly sophisticated web site tracks the historical progress and work tasks, target that story for another essay.) Are each vehicle must be ordered separately with the factory-installed computer, so you Can not just so much to walk and ride home. They are not as expensive as computer-go options - the monthly fee for the cellular modem and LogMeIn is probably not the biggest obstacle to people simply because normally think of as your additional monthly payment needed to communicate. And there are a bewildering array of options and add-ons, so the dealer Need training here. The biggest problem is that they are not available in their limousines. I should not buy a pick-up, or even her sexy Transit Connect (you can see, all over Europe and imports are only here to be) to get one measly WinCE PC. Why not simply Spend your money on a laptop with a cellular modem and call it a day? You can get a "real" PC with a larger screen apps on it and put what you want and still have the connection back to your office or internet access when you need it. The only problem is that you either leave your laptop in your dead or at risk for it to have with you. If you are an entrepreneur or a delivery person or anyone else are constantly on the go, it might make sense to go with the in-dash PC. What about The Other Ford-tech package? This is the software to sync that developed with Microsoft. It is developed for a text-mode display is a true computer and not in the sense of the event based on this device. Can it sync with your phone, offer turn-by-turn navigation instructions (but not a visual representation of the landscape) and automatically mute the radio when an incoming call detected IS for your cell phone. This is a welcome on most newer model cars, and Ford in the navigation package free throw when you purchase other options for synchronization. Or so I was led to believe. Also, find out all the options argument is maddening, and why so many of us run screaming from our local dealer now, you should know that I quite like buying clothes bizarre have. II just cars for over 25 years have owned about half of my life, and only one bought on American Big Three, this period (since my current was produced in Canada and is actually offered by Ford, Toyota, even though I bought the version ). I do not drive it enough, the Work Solutions package also consider if it were in a limo. While I credit Ford for the trial, some interesting technology in order to give their vehicles, they have a Long Way To Go Before, many people will decide to use it. Yet it is remarkable that they try to go to have a share of the Market Maker ignored as the others: The Road Warriors to their work should be done in their cars, and not just imagination Deliver infotainment systems. Now if they could appeal to the nerds, they might have a winner ....