MINI Connected is hitting the states soon, which is fantastic news for MINI owners interested in a truly integrated communications experience in their MINIs. MINI Connected is MINI’s offering to the smart-phone elite and the online generation. It will seamlessly integrate your online world into your MINI with apps like Web Radio, RSS News Reader and even Twitter client (complete with GPS location, time and temperature automatically-generated Tweets!).
Additionally, the US release will boast Google Local Search, Google Send to Car (the ability to make changes to in-car content from your desk or laptop), and a very interesting Dynamic Music Creator, which will mix and play appropriate music based on how you are driving and what you are doing – like cornering, braking, acceleration and etc.). At last, we can have a custom made soundtrack as we buzz around town – MINI Connecte will make us all feel like true action heroes.
The Web Radio is also fantastic. Relying on your smart-phone’s broadband connection, Web Radio will deliver thousands of web radio stations seamlessly into your car. iPod Out is also a fascinating offering- the Apple-created interface enables the MINI Connected system to display the contents of your iPod on the dash, in the same format you see it on the iPod. There’s no lag between selection and execution like in some automakers’ interface solutions, thanks in part to the symbiotic design of the interface.
All-in-all, MINI Connected is looking to be an absolutely great technology that has something for everyone. It’s an adaptable system that will allow for technological growth from the third-parties (such as newer, better versions of iPod and the like), permitting us to have the latest and greatest technologies in our MINI.
