Mercedes has a new $298 accessory accessible right away which adds an additional level of smartphone compatibility to the existent in-vehicle controls of iPods and aux audio. The Media Interface Plus allows a car to tide audio from an iPhone, BlackBerry, or any other compatible Bluetooth song player (we’re guessing A2DP, though Mercedes doesn’t specify). The MIP can additionally control a Pandora app on a iPhone as well as BlackBerry, as well as other facilities similar to SMS and email understanding / writing have been stirring. There have been iPod / iPhone as well as Mini-USB plugs for charging, as well as an discretionary cable can pull video from your iPhone as good as well as display it on your in-dash shade — when a automobile is at the standstill, of march.
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New Vehicle Accessory Brings Pandora Smartphone Application and Wireless Music Streaming

MONTVALE, NJ as well as PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) today voiced a accessibility of the Media Interface Plus (MIP), an innovative new vehicle appendage which enables drivers to retrofit their Mercedes-Benz to play and carryout Pandora (the heading personalized radio application) as well as alternative streaming audio content from their Smartphone, using the vehicle’s reward audio complement.

Media Interface Plus expands the basic functions of a vehicle’s Media Interface (standard or discretionary depending upon model), enhancing in-vehicle connectivity. A plug-and-play device, MIP seamlessly integrates with the Mercedes-Benz mbrace apartment of services and Smartphone apps. It requires no designation: business simply bond MIP to a existent Media Interface outlet (in a glove compartment or core armrest) as well as enjoy an unprecedented range of new facilities regulating a existent discerning user interface.

“Media Interface Plus is an sparkling extension of the joining to yield cutting-edge, versatile party solutions for Mercedes-Benz vehicles,” said Christian Treiber, general executive of after-sales commercial operation development for MBUSA. “We were a initial car manufacturer to fully integrate a iPod and launch mbrace Smartphone apps that carryout vehicle functions from the iPhone as well as BlackBerry as well as lengthened Mercedes-Benz Concierge over a car. We have been regularly seeking to pull the range of in-vehicle connectivity to keep gait with the customers’ lifestyles as well as expectations.”

The MIP provides an easy-to-use interface with the Pandora application running on any iPhone 3G, 3GS or iPhone 4. For BlackBerry inclination, a MIP enables Bluetooth wireless audio streaming of Pandora as good as simple carryout of the currently personification track. A Bluetooth wireless link is additionally used to tide and carryout audio marks from iPod, iPhone or any other consumer electronics inclination supporting Bluetooth audio streaming.

The outcome is seamless formation of outstanding tune quality, a capability to assign an iPod or iPhone, and the convenience of using informed interfaces to access a brand-new features it offers by airwave as well as steering wheel controls for music playback.

Additionally, when connected using a special video cable, a Media Interface Plus enables customers to play iPod or iPhone video calm on the vehicle display when a car is at the delay.

The Media Interface Plus was developed in partnership with Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. (MBRDNA) in Palo Alto, California, the heart of the Silicon Valley. Johann Jungwirth, boss & CEO, MBRDNA commented, “Once again Mercedes-Benz demonstrates the technological leadership with this product as first-to-market formation of Pandora Internet Radio by an automotive OEM. We continue to welcome trends and drive innovations that enable our customers to wirelessly access one more mobile applications as well as tide preferred calm into Mercedes-Benz vehicles in an discerning as well as easy manner with destiny upgrades as well as next era products.”

The Media Interface Plus is an original Mercedes-Benz Accessory as well as is now available for purchase for the one-time price of $298 during Mercedes-Benz authorized dealers.

About Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.
Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. (MBRDNA) headquartered in Palo Alto, California, was founded in 1995, to focus upon investigate, modernized engineering, product growth and testing, as good as brand-new advanced pattern concepts. Innovations embody the formation of a iPod as well as iPhone into Mercedes-Benz models. As good as a “Search as well as Send” feature, which is an easy as well as convenient approach to devise your outing destinations with Google Maps and send them to the vehicle equipped with mbrace. One of its many new product innovations is a intelligent drive app for a iPhone. The company continues to broach a creation which extends a technological leadership of Mercedes-Benz vehicles.

About Mercedes-Benz USA
Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA), headquartered in Montvale, New Jersey, is responsible for a distribution, marketing as well as customer use for all Mercedes-Benz as well as Maybach products in the United States. MBUSA offers drivers the many different line-up in the opulence shred with 12 model lines ranging from the sporty C-Class to a flagship S-Class sedans as well as a SLS AMG supercar.

MBUSA is additionally obliged for a placement, selling as well as patron use of Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Vans in a US. More report on MBUSA as well as the products can be found during www.mbusa.com.

Via Engadget