Connected Car - CTIA 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of ctia 2014 is brought to you by
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AT&T all right guys welcome to the AT&T Booth where we're specifically checking
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out AT&T Drive AT&T Drive is delivering connectivity to different cars around
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the world including stuff like the Tesla Model S GM terrain Volvo XC60 and Audi
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A3 some of these cars are either powered by 3G or LTE and that's mostly what AT&T
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is delivering to these devices AT&T has specifically said to me at the show
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floor today that they're they're trying to make get a car purchasing decision or
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a car manufacturer purchasing decision not a carrier decision when buying a car
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which is quite admirable but if you do want more AT&T drive connected apps the
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car manufacturers are able to take advantage of some of those hopefully in
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the future to talk about the different apps that they're hopefully going to be able to partner with I have a
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conversation with AT&T's senior vice president of emerging devices division
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Chris Penrose so what kind of apps and services are you guys partnering with to bring to these vehicles we're really
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excited on Friday we made a big announcement of six major app partners
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that have come to develop on AT&T's Drive platform and really covering a
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full range of services that people are going to want to use in their car so
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first think about uh INF infotainment and media type of applications we've got
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iHeart Radio uh obviously being able to stream internet radio we've got Stitcher
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being able to listen out to certain podcasts and then newsbeat a really
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exciting one hour or one minute uh consumption of different news articles
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you wanted to be able to hear while you're driving so that's great uh also some location based Services uh are
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really big in the car and Glimpse and being able to share your location is one
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of those great applications out there uh we also brought weather in the car and
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weather is believe it or not a very important thing that people want to know
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uh and uh and finally um we also brought
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parking because parking is something that we all do and Parker is a great app
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that we've brought in the car as well so ACU weather does the weather Parker does
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the parking app and we're very excited to have these first six Partners on we
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have many many more they building out for the for the platform we'll be
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announcing in the coming months by utilizing these apps and general connectivity you can do quite a few
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different things especially when using them in sync but first off I want to
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talk about twinning twinning is pretty interesting if you happen to say leave
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home without your phone your car could essentially kind of turn into your phone
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if you have your profile properly set up and you leave home your your car can
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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
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text messages you can do all those kind of things and it will do those things as
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your phone so if you called someone it's not going to come from some foreign
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number and it's not going to not show up in their call display as you it will
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still appear directly as you all the time so it should be quite seamless all
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right guys thanks for watching our AT&T Drive video and our general overview of
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the future of the connected car if you want to see all the rest of our content
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from ctia be sure to subscribe to Line Tech tips and thank you AT&T for
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allowing us to come here this year