By: Jenna Gonzalez (Editor In Chief)

What: You are invited to join me LIVE on the debut of our Ustream event “Mobile Sense Show” where we will have an open live discussion about everything mobile! This week’s topic: NOKIA

Who: I will be joined by my industry friends. In my own humble opinion, these are three of the best, highly respected experts in mobile technology. Jason Harris of www.techcraver.com, Sloan Bowman of www.sloanbowman.com & Matthew Miller of www.nokiaexperts.com

When: Sunday, November 7 at 10 PM ET/ 7 PM PT

Where: Ustream

How: You need to RSVP on the show channel. Also, if you have Facebook, make sure to RSVP that way too. The boys & I have something special for an attendee, so you definitely don’t want to miss out! Event Details & Registration

Why: Face it, you don’t just frequent this site for no reason. Like it or not, you’ve become a part of my online family, and it’s been such a joy having you around. That’s why I’m inviting you to come join me in the discussion. It’ll be an hour of fun, informative listening and an opportunity for you to ask us some relevant questions. Also, one very lucky participant will win a special gadget from me What could it be? Well if you know me and my giveaways, it’ll be something fantastic! So what do you say? One hour with a friend. I won’t bite. Unless you want me to. lol

By: Tony Novoa (Contributing Editor)

Update: Nov 1, 2010. This contest is now officially closed. Congratulations to the winners (announced below) who nabbed their very own unlocked Sony Xperia X10. We would like to thank our friends at Sony and all the fans who participated in the contest. Remember, we have lots and lots of giveaways currently up so don’t forget to enter!

Winners:

Suresh G. of Los Angeles, CA

Jason H. of  Portland, OR

Christina N. of Newark, NJ (Twitter)

Larry M. of Toronto, Canada (Facebook)

Staff Note: Oct 1, 2010. We’ve been telling you on Twitter & Facebook for the last few days. Now it’s a reality! Yes, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is officially a giveaway! All you have to do is read the review and comment down below on why you want one. It’s that simple! Please make sure to read all the way down for the rules. On October 30, 2010 we will award 2 very lucky commenters with their very own UNLOCKED Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 phone! Also, 1 very lucky Facebook Fan & 1 Twitter follower will win their very own units as well!

First and foremost, it needs to be said that as a long-time BlackBerry user I bring a different perspective to my initial exposure with an Android phone. How lucky am I that it happens to be the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10! Note: For this particular review, I used the AT&T branded Xperia X10 and not the Unlocked Global Version. I must also disclose that as my first Android device, I have no basis for comparison to any other Android device. All I can say is that I now understand why Google’s OS has so quickly captured both market and mindshare and is becoming so ubiquitous in the growingly crowded smartphone world. I have become a fast fan.

The Basics

For starters, the X10 is powered by Android OS 1.6 and doesn’t have a hardware keyboard. You interact with it via a beautiful 4-inch capacitive touchscreen and three buttons beneath the display. Powering it is Qualcomm’s fast 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, making it Sony Ericsson’s most powerful smartphoneyet. I must say that the responsiveness of this phone is also quite impressive.

Even more impressive is that the X10 is the first Sony Ericsson phone to feature Google’s OS and I’m happy to report that everything seemed to work fairly well. let’s take a look at the design shall we?

Build & Design

From a packaging perspective, the X10 comes in a small box. But don’t let that mislead you. This is one of Sony Ericsson’s largest phones to date and also one of the larger cell phones on the market. What is surprising is that despite the the size of the display, which covers almost the entire front of the handset (119x63x13 mm), it is quite comfortable to hold in one hand. The well executed trick is in the width of the phone, which is identical to the BlackBerry Storm form factor. The height is where you find the extra real estate to provide a larger, more encompassing display.

What’s In The Box?

Packaged with the phone you’ll find the basic fare:

• Battery
• Modular charger with a generous micro USB cable (60″)
• 2 GB microSD Card
• 3.5mm headset
• Quickstart Guide

The X10 has a black, sleek design flanked by curved aluminum and a plastic back cover. The overall impression is a sharp, futuristic, sexy looking device. Frankly, this is not a big surprise coming from Sony. The right side of the handset features multimedia control buttons which control the camera and MP3 player.

The plastic battery cover encompasses the entire back of the X10 and is not easy to remove. You need to use your fingernail to remove it by prying a groove at the bottom of the handset. Right next to it are lanyard holes which I guess can come in handy if you want to attach a wrist strap or hang it somehow.

All The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Goodies

The display is impressive. Providing a sharp & crisp image is a 4-inch capacitive display with 480 x 854 resolution and 64K color support that delivers good image quality and features. Not quite like Samsung’s AMOLED or Apple’s Retina display but still very sharp and vivid. No complaints here. The Android OS in version 1.6 comes with a 64K color limit, but you will soon be able to upgrade to the latest 2.1 version of the operating system which supports 16M colors. I would expect that the difference isn’t that noticeable but the more colors the better, right?

The current display has excellent contrast and adjusts according to surrounding light. The result is that images remain clear even under direct sunlight. Images may sometimes seem too bright, but this can also be adjusted in the display settings.

In terms of interaction, the screen is very sensitive; the reaction to finger touches is fast. More importantly, the screen is very precise, which facilitates the use of virtual keyboard in both the horizontal and the vertical position (full QWERTY keyboard appears on the screen in both cases). As a BlackBerry Storm user who has long struggled with its virtual keyboard, I can attest to the better and effective execution here.

Similarly, browsing through photos and contacts, web page scrolling and other actions that include moving the finger across the screen can be performed quickly and accurately. The 1 GHz Snapdragon processor definitely makes a difference. However, multi-touch is not supported (why not?????). My understanding is that it won’t be supported even if Android OS was upgraded to version 2.1 (or later) due to “hardware issues,” according to Sony Ericsson. Unlike other handsets with Google’s OS, web pages and photos can’t be zoomed in by pinching. Instead, zooming in can be performed by pressing the icons marked by the plus and minus signs that show up on the screen in certain situations. If you love the way Android works on other devices or are used to Apple’s iOS, this is clearly a disappointment and one of the biggest downsides of the phone.

Xperia X10 Main Menu

Xperia X10 In Locked Mode, Lit Buttons

Buttons

The three front buttons below the screen consistently have the same specific function. Pressing the left button activates the standard context menu, which as I understand, represents the same choices on every Android handset. Note that the list of available options changes according to the active application. Pressing the middle button always brings up the home screen, while the right one is a one-step-back button. This is not unlike the Blackberry interface – except that it typically offers a four button layout.

Something to note is that when the buttons are pressed, two small lights between them light up. Although this seems to be mostly for aesthetic reasons, it does come in handy when using the device in the dark. Despite the fact that all three buttons are clearly marked and protrude enough to be easily pressed without looking, the icons don’t light up.

The multimedia buttons located around the sides are significantly smaller, flatter and poorly marked. They have a response time delay of a few hundredths of a second, so it is helpful that photos can also be snapped by pressing the much more sensitive screen.
Finally, the top of the handset contains the power button, a micro-USB port covered with a flap and a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack. A comment about the flap… while I understand its aesthetic value, it is also woefully annoying to manipulate when it is time to charge the device. I struggled to keep the flap out of the way while connecting the charging cord.

Xperia X10 Front View, Turned Off

Xperia X10 Back View

Performance

Equipped with a smoking fast processor and big, high resolution screen, the X10 performs very nicely and responsively. The operating system and applications run quickly, zooming in and scrolling through multimedia and web pages is impressive and the overall experience is quite satisfying. Keep in mind that this smartphone currently comes with older version of Google’s operating system, Android OS 1.6. Word has it that Sony Ericsson has promised to release an OS upgrade very shortly.

As far as memory capacity goes, the handset comes with 1 GB of internal memory and an 2 GB microSD memory card, which seemed a bit light given the plethora of apps available for Android OS as well as the potential number of files that one typically wants to store these days. The good news… for those who need more memory, the device supports microSD cards of up to 16 GB.

Xperia X10 Fits Elegantly In Jenna's Delicate Hands

Call Quality/Wireless

The Xperia X10 supports all 2G and 3G bands and can therefore be easily used around the world without concern about the mobile network operator’s technology. Certainly, this is a convenience that frequent travelers will appreciate. It is important to note that the phone also supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1.

As far as call quality, I can’t characterize it as as completely satisfactory. Keep in mind that performance can probably be attributed to the shortcomings of the AT&T network. That being said, people on the other end did not sound as clear as one would want or expect and many times their voice was followed by a faint echo. I must also admit that my opportunity to test call quality was hampered by having only $25 allocated to the SIM card that came with the phone. These were quickly consumed by data usage and some missed calls. While many other handsets have a significantly louder speaker, I found it to be more than adequate. Notably, the microphone quality is very good; the caller on the other end was always heard distinctly.

As far as the address book goes, I didn’t find it to be as intuitive as it could have been. After a desired contact has been found, it takes an additional three screen touches in order to actually make a call (first for the number and then on the call icon). Although I didn’t try, my understanding is that this issue can be sidestepped by installing a better dialer, many of which are available in the Android Market.

User Interface

If I have a negative comment about the user interface, it would have to be about Sony Ericsson’s Timescape/Mediascape interface. Here’s how it works… the UI focuses on Internet communication and multimedia content stored in the phone. The Timescape application manages many types of communication: calls, SMS text messages, emails and social media applications like Facebook and Twitter. It can also be set as the home screen.

When Timescape is activated, all the messages are lined up in reverse chronological order and show a photo of the person with whom you communicated. They can be filtered according to communication type and every one of them, along with the photo, has an icon with the infinity sign that shows a complete communication history with that person.

Mediascape functions similarly, but with photos, videos and MP3s organized in reverse chronological order. Most recently used or added files come up first on the list. While I can appreciate the intent of this interface, I find it highly inefficient when dealing with large amounts of communication. That is to say, to rely on this interface would lead to potentially missing important communication which would be buried with unimportant Facebook or Twitter status updates. In order to get good utility from the phone, I relied on native applications for email, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Win this global unlocked Xperia X10 in glossy black!

This gorgeous sleek white Xperia X10 could be yours!

Web Browsing and Email

The smartphone features a fairly dated Android OS 1.6 browser, capable of rendering even complicated web pages. This is probably the one big flaw in this phone considering that it comes mightily equipped with a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor. The processor certainly allows very smooth scrolling and zooming, making web browsing a very pleasant experience. However, a phone this beautiful with Android 1.6 (while others are already up to 2.2) is simply unforgivable.

It should be noted that Flash is not supported (like Apple iPhones & iPads), but this downside is somewhat offset by a fast and simple YouTube browser. Although I did not test this, the handset includes an application suite for synchronizing various segments of MS Outlook with the handset (email, contacts, tasks, calendar). The most interesting among them is Moxier Mail, used for Exchange Server email access that doesn’t need server-side extensions since it uses the server’s Outlook Web Access interface. The standard email app can be used for POP3, IMAP and Gmail accounts.

Xperia X10 8.1MP Camera Lens

Camera

The X10 features an 8.1 megapixel camera with an LED flash. The camera software has a large feature set reminiscent of Sony Cyber-shot cameras. In addition to excellent face and smile detection, people in photos can be tagged (similar to Facebook), which can prove to be useful for subsequent sorting in Mediascape.

Daylight photo quality is above average for this class of handset, exceptionally sharp and with vivid colors. Photos taken in darker settings, however, have much duller colors and a large number of artifacts – probably due to the low light adjustment. My understanding is that some Sony Ericsson phones have much better image quality in this type of setting… and it’s a shame that the X10′s camera doesn’t do better here. Furthermore, the LED flash must be manually activated, which is another downside.

Here are some pictures taken with the phone’s camera…

Outdoors in cloudy conditions (no flash)

Indoors With Light & Flash

Battery Life

The Xperia X10 features a 1500 mAh Li-Poly battery, sufficient for about two days of normal usage. Heavy usage of Wi-Fi, multimedia and GPS functionalities reduces the autonomy drastically; the handset, under those conditions, will have to be recharged daily. This, it turns out, was my experience as I ended up extensively exercising the Wi-Fi radio due to the embarrasingly low SIM card account that came with this device (I don’t have an AT&T account so Sony sent what must have been a low capacity SIM card with the phone). Additionally, the reduced battery life can also be due to the large screen although I found the X10 to automatically lock very frequently as soon as it is not being used. Supposedly, just like other Sony Ericsson phones, ordinary calls have little impact on battery life.

Reality Grade

Building on Sony’s reputation for beautiful hardware, the Xperia X10 is an excellent Sony Ericsson mobile phone that is stylish and wonderful to look at. It could perhaps even be considered Sony’s best to date. It cannot, however, be considered the best Android-based phone on the market due to its fairly dated Android 1.6 OS (Sony says it should be upgradeable to 2.1 later this year). If Internet communication such as social networking and multimedia capabilities are features you primarily look for in a mobile phone, you will be more than satisfied. However, if you want other functions, such as multi-touch, you may want to look elsewhere. Overall, the Xperia X10′s speed and notable screen can satisfy many, but with other more inviting phones out there, even a $99 subsidized price with a 2 year AT&T Plan won’t make this one a standout. In fairness, it needs to be said that this phone has enjoyed excellent user feedback.

Pros:

• Highly responsive 4-inch touchscreen (480×854 pixels)
• Nice higher-end camera (8.1 MP with LED flash)
• Good overall performance
• Very attractive build
• Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G support

Cons:

• No multi-touch (not even with an OS upgrade!)
• No Flash support for web browsing (yet)
• Voice quality could be better (could be due to AT&T’s service though)
• Innovative Timescape and Mediascape user interface – not really practical for efficient communication

List Price: $99 with a 2 year contract from AT&T, 499.99 without a plan (unlocked price is also around $499.99)

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By: Edward Jackson (Senior Editor)

 Meet the Hard Drive Evolved: Going Beyond Simple Design Changes, Storage and Backup, Hitachi LifeStudio Drives are the First and Only All-in-One External Drives that Make it Easier to Organize, Protect and Relive Life’s Greatest Moments

Industry Firsts / Product Highlights

• Automatic Organization and Easy Sharing: First drive in the industry that automatically pulls together and organizes your photos, videos, music and documents from your computer, any connected USB device or your social media outlets, making them easier to access, view and share. Easily upload, view and interact with photos on Facebook, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums without leaving the app.
• Stunning 3D Navigation: The only external drive that effortlessly displays all your favorite memories on a 3D wall so you no longer need to dig through folders and files to find them.
•  Backup Redefined: Hitachi LifeStudio drives take data protection to the next level, offering both local and online cloud backup in one integrated solution, within one interface – no more downloading and installing two separate programs. All online content is stored in its natural format, so files are available from any Internet browser anywhere in the world, and even from an iPhone and iPad.
• Access to Favorite Premium Content: For the first time within an external drive, users can search, filter, watch or subscribe to millions of titles from online content providers. Catch the latest news, TV shows and music videos, or even play online games all from within the LifeStudio app.
• Grab n’ Go Flexibility: Pushing design boundaries beyond a hard drive in a box, LifeStudio Plus external drives are the first in the industry that feature an integrated USB key for ultimate flexibility. The USB key easily syncs content for grab n’ go convenience

Meet the hard drive evolved: the Hitachi LifeStudio external hard drive family. During the last decade, external hard drives have offered little beyond design changes and simple storage and backup. With the new LifeStudio family, launched today by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST), the company is breaking through the long-established confines of the category and delivering an external drive that combines highly reliable storage and new levels of data protection with content organization, management, socialization and navigation for both local and online content.

The LifeStudio family, offered in both portable and desktop models, creates an unprecedented solution that seamlessly pulls in, organizes and protects consumers’ priceless stored digital content – photos, videos, music and documents – and unifies them with online digital content from social networks such as Facebook and photo sites such as Flickr and Picasa Web Albums. These important digital memories are laid out on a stunning 3D visual wall, instead of in random and hard-to-find files and folders, creating a comprehensive and organized catalog of the user’s digital life. Redefining backup, consumers receive the benefits of both local and cloud backup within one single application, making it easy to view, download, and share protected cloud content from any web browser, anywhere.

“Our LifeStudio drive starts where others stop,” said Mike Williams, vice president and general manager, Branded Business for Hitachi GST. “These drives aren’t just about interfaces and capacity, or backup. While these elements are important in an external storage solution, the value comes in creating lifestyle solutions that become part of the way we organize and relive digital memories. Our LifeStudio solution connects consumers to their online and local content in a more intimate way than ever before. For the first time, consumers truly have an integrated experience – one solution to find, view, protect and relive their digital memories. This is a huge milestone for our category.”

“Personal storage solutions have become an integral part of a consumer’s digital life in terms of providing simple storage and backup,” says Liz Conner, senior research analyst at IDC. “Pushing these boundaries, Hitachi’s new LifeStudio drive brings an innovative approach to the market, addressing how consumers organize, navigate and relive digital memories, seamlessly across multiple digital devices and online sites. Coupled with Hitachi’s local and cloud backup strategy, end users truly have an all-in-one solution to help manage their digital life.”

Automatic Organization and Easy Sharing on a Stunning 3D Wall

Today it’s not just early adopters using external drives to store and protect their digital lives — it’s a huge segment of the population that are deeply connected to the content they create, collect and share. Hitachi research has shown that organization is one of the most frustrating components of a consumer’s digital life. Often hectic lifestyles lead to a lack of time spent organizing the growing amount of digital content received daily. What’s left is a random storage process, which multiplies a user’s frustration when trying to backup, share, find and relieve memories. Additionally, much of what consumers’ value from a content perspective is online and socialized on dozens or hundreds of sites. Hitachi is cleaning up the “digital mess” with the LifeStudio family of drives because, in the end, it’s about content – protecting it, reliving it and sharing it.

After a quick install of the software, the drive’s innovative technology instantly kicks in. Your content – photos, videos, music and documents stored on your computer, any connected USB storage device or online sites such as Facebook, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums – automatically begins to appear in chronological order on your stunning 3D wall. Music is organized by artist or album. Now all of your most precious digital content is easily available at your finger tips. No more searching through files and folders.

Breakthrough Backup

Revolutionizing the way consumers protect their content, the Hitachi LifeStudio drive is the first to provide local and online cloud backup integrated into one single solution, within one install process. The LifeStudio application gives users multiple ways to easily protect their digital content on site or in the cloud. Every customer receives 3GB of online storage for free and for more storage there is an option to upgrade to a quarter of a terabyte (250GB) for only $49 per year, which includes multiple computer protection.

Hitachi Backup is simple and easy-to-use with default options that cover virtually every Mac or PC users’ backup needs. When using Hitachi’s cloud service, all content is stored in its natural format (no proprietary formatting), so files are protected and easy to view, download and share from any web browser, anywhere, even from an iPhone and iPad. Backup runs every 30 minutes or can be scheduled at one’s convenience.

LifeStudio Plus Drives with Integrated USB Keys

Hitachi understands the need to fit into consumers’ fast-paced, increasingly digital lifestyles. The LifeStudio products move beyond a hard drive in a box, into a category all their own. The patent-pending design of the LifeStudio Plus family provides the ultimate in flexibility with an integrated 4GB USB key, which provides a quick way to sync important files and folders for grab n’ go ease.

With the LifeStudio Plus family, the drive’s content management software conveniently allows you to select specific files or folders to sync to the USB key. As a result, users can simply remove the key and take what they need, while leaving the rest of their content safely stored at home. On return, the key docks on the drive to automatically sync everything back together.

Pricing and Availability

Designed for both Mac and PC users, the LifeStudio USB 2.0 external drive family comes in both mobile and desktop solutions. Each comes preloaded with the Hitachi LifeStudio content management app and Hitachi Backup software. Hitachi LifeStudio external drives will be available at retail and online stores in mid-July.

Manufacturer’s suggested retail pricing for the LifeStudio drive family includes:

LifeStudio Mobile

$79.99 250GB                                    Platinum and graphite color options

$99.99 320GB

$119.99 500GB

LifeStudio Mobile Plus

$119.99 320GB                                   Platinum and graphite color options

$139.99 500GB

LifeStudio Desk

$99.99 500GB                                    Black

$129.99 1TB

$199.99 2TB

LifeStudio Desk Plus

$149.99 1TB                                      Black

$219.99 2TB

For more information please visit www.LifeStudio.com or check out the LifeStudio social media profiles:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/LifeStudioStorage

Twitter: www.twitter.com/_LifeStudio_

YouTube: www.youtube.com/LifeStudioStorage

By Michael Hunter (Contributing Writer)

Yesterday The Big G (Google) announced Buzz, taking another shot at the social networking world (So long Orkut!). So what’s all the buzz about? Google’s Buzz seems to be in direct competition with the world famous Twitter, so much that it’s just another status updating network. Like most Google apps, Buzz integrates directly with your Google account and your Gmail inbox, which is cool I guess, or so I thought until I logged into Gmail and was bombarded with a whole bunch of obnoxious Buzz stuff. It also imports your pictures from Picasa and Flickr as well as your feeds from Google Reader, and tweets from Twitter. Wait… your tweets from twitter? How could Google be in direct competition with Twitter but imports your tweets? I’m confused

Being the techie that I am I figured I would give Buzz a fair shot, here are my thoughts:

I accessed it from my Moto Droid and though it was bit buggy, I did like the interface and optimization for the Android browser. I also liked the Google maps integration via layers on the Droid……BUT I’m still not thrilled. I feel more comfortable on Twitter without all of the annoying Buzz updates looking to take over my Gmail inbox. Buzz could very well be successful as most of Google’s projects are but will require a lot more people to use Gmail, and working in the field that I do, I know for a fact that a lot of people just use their Gmail address one time and that’s to get past the log-in screen on their brand spanking new Android device. Head on over to Google’s dedicated site for their new service and check it out if you haven’t done so already and let us know what you think. While you’re doing that I’m just going to click on this “turn off Buzz” link at the bottom of my Gmail and you can find me and the rest of the My Reality Tech team on Twitter.

@Jenna_Ice

@TariqBamadhaj

@Kimosaabi

@NathanMcDuck

@Mjhunterjr

(via: Google)

(image: Zazzle)

By: Nate Nelson (Contributing Writer)

Whether one considers it absolutely shocking or completely inevitable, the first Tweet has been sent live from outer space. Colonel Timothy J. (TJ) Creamer – the Flight Engineer for Expedition 22 – made use of the brand new Crew Support LAN aboard the International Space Station.

Astro_TJ (Colonel Creamer’s Twitter handle) is a regular contributor to the popular social media site, although his previous Tweets from the ISS had been emailed to ground control and updated from there. The atmosphere-breaking Tweet read as follows: “Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! More soon, send your ?s”

The Crew Support LAN is a new feature aboard the ISS, and will allow crew indirect access to the Internet through a ground-based computer. In addition, when the ISS is in contact with the ground, astronauts will be able to access email, Internet telephone, and videoconferencing. NASA was careful to delineate that astronauts aboard the ISS would be subject to the same computer use guidelines as their colleagues on the ground, presumably so they would not waste precious spacewalking time updating their Facebook or watching videos on YouTube.

(via PCMag.com)

By: Michael Hunter (Contributing Writer)

The Motoroi by Motorola is an all touch device running on the Android 2.0 (Éclair) build that was also recently announced to be released in Korea as its first Android device. Sporting a 3.7 inch WVGA screen, 8 MP camera with xenon flash, HDMI-out capabilities, and recording video in HD at 720p quality, it is a force to be reckoned with.

On the morning of January 21^st Motorola announced that come March, the Motoroi, formally known as the Motorola Sholes Tablet, would also be available in the good old US of A via their official twitter page. Can I prove it? Only with this link here: http://twitter.com/MotoMobile/status/8034092356. Did you get “page doesn’t exist” too? That link is what used to be the announcement from Moto, but they must’ve deleted the tweet. The post read “Looking for a phone with an 8mp camera & Xenon flash? Look no further- Motorola’s Motoroi is coming to the US in March: http://bit.ly/69fCY1”, the link in their post takes you over to an Engadget post on the Motoroi.

Could it be that the Moto’s original post was deleted because let the cat out of the bag a little too early? As rumor has it we will be seeing this on the T-Mobile network since it just passed through FCC with the AWS 3G bands.

(via: Engadget, Korea Herald)

By: Nate Nelson (Contributing Writer)

Ford Motor Company rolled out a new automobile/mobile connection concept at International CES 2010, debuting what they have named “MyFord.” Featuring a touch-based interactive dashboard, expanded memory slots for USB and SD, audio input jacks, and multiple LCD screens, MyFord will bring an unprecedented level of gadgetry to the road.

Set to debut for the 2011 Ford Edge and the 2011 Lincoln MKX, the driver will be able to control system elements from a five-way switch on the steering wheel. MyFord (called MyLincoln and MyMercury in the corresponding makers) will utilize their current Sync/Microsoft system for iTunes tagging, Twitter updates, Pandora playlists, and personal navigation, among others. Drivers will be able to send MapQuest maps to their vehicle, which they can open with voice prompts.

An eight inch center console screen will double as a computer monitor when the vehicle is in park and has a keyboard plugged into one of the USB ports. A Wi-Fi connection will allow the driver to surf the web (again, when the vehicle is in park), or provide access on-the-go for passengers through a mobile broadband modem.

Many of MyFord’s controls will be voice activated and controlled, including text messaging. A tone will alert the driver when the text comes in, followed by the system reading the message aloud. While that sounds like it could cause panic and frantic button-stabbing for philanderers driving with their significant others, it is intended as a safety feature by Ford. Drivers can respond with a generic message or call back with a “dial” button.

(via PCMag.com)