Samsung announces Drive Link, a car-friendly app with MirrorLink integration
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Until self-driving cars become mainstream, it’s best to keep eyes on roads and hands off phones. With this in mind, Samsung’s debuting Drive Link, an app that balances in-car essentials with driver safety, complete with approval from the no-nonsense Japanese Automotive Manufacturers Association. It’s all about the bare essentials — navigation, hands-free calling and audiotainment from your phone-based files or TuneIn. Destinations can be pulled from S Calendar appointments or texts without trouble, and the text-to-speech feature means you won’t miss a message, email or social media update. The best bit is that via MirrorLink, all these goodies can be fed through compatible dash screens and speaker systems. Drive Link is available now through Sammy’s app store for Europeans sporting an international Galaxy S III, and will be coming to other ICS handsets “in the near future.”
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A smartphone app for drivers? Wait a minute, aren’t we supposed to look away from our phones and pay full concentration on the road ahead instead whenever we drive? I suppose there is plenty of sense for the Samsung Drive Link to be introduced, where this is touted to be an innovative in-car smartphone application that was designed for safe use even when driving – especially so, I might add. Constructed from scratch around the three most popular uses of smartphones while driving, they are listening to music, navigating to a destination and talking hands-free. Not only that, Samsung Drive Link will be equipped with its fair share of shortcuts to other useful driving applications, meeting the standards set by the Japanese Automotive Manufacturers Association, which has been touted to be one of the world’s strictest driver’s safety regulation standards.