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AT&T all right guys welcome to the AT&T Booth where we're specifically checking
out AT&T Drive AT&T Drive is delivering connectivity to different cars around
the world including stuff like the Tesla Model S GM terrain Volvo XC60 and Audi
A3 some of these cars are either powered by 3G or LTE and that's mostly what AT&T
is delivering to these devices AT&T has specifically said to me at the show
floor today that they're they're trying to make get a car purchasing decision or
a car manufacturer purchasing decision not a carrier decision when buying a car
which is quite admirable but if you do want more AT&T drive connected apps the
car manufacturers are able to take advantage of some of those hopefully in
the future to talk about the different apps that they're hopefully going to be able to partner with I have a
conversation with AT&T's senior vice president of emerging devices division
Chris Penrose so what kind of apps and services are you guys partnering with to bring to these vehicles we're really
excited on Friday we made a big announcement of six major app partners
that have come to develop on AT&T's Drive platform and really covering a
full range of services that people are going to want to use in their car so
first think about uh INF infotainment and media type of applications we've got
iHeart Radio uh obviously being able to stream internet radio we've got Stitcher
being able to listen out to certain podcasts and then newsbeat a really
exciting one hour or one minute uh consumption of different news articles
you wanted to be able to hear while you're driving so that's great uh also some location based Services uh are
really big in the car and Glimpse and being able to share your location is one
of those great applications out there uh we also brought weather in the car and
weather is believe it or not a very important thing that people want to know
uh and uh and finally um we also brought
parking because parking is something that we all do and Parker is a great app
that we've brought in the car as well so ACU weather does the weather Parker does
the parking app and we're very excited to have these first six Partners on we
have many many more they building out for the for the platform we'll be
announcing in the coming months by utilizing these apps and general connectivity you can do quite a few
different things especially when using them in sync but first off I want to
talk about twinning twinning is pretty interesting if you happen to say leave
home without your phone your car could essentially kind of turn into your phone
if you have your profile properly set up and you leave home your your car can
mimic all the things that your phone can already do it'll have its address books it can call out to people it can receive
text messages you can do all those kind of things and it will do those things as
your phone so if you called someone it's not going to come from some foreign
number and it's not going to not show up in their call display as you it will
still appear directly as you all the time so it should be quite seamless all
right guys thanks for watching our AT&T Drive video and our general overview of
the future of the connected car if you want to see all the rest of our content
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