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You car nuts out there might be familiar with Chevy’s upcoming electric car called the Volt. It will be able to do some neat stuff, like begin charging on a programmable clock and have OnStar built in, but at the LA Auto Show last week, they showed a slide of the good old BlackBerry Storm 9530 activating charging remotely through an on-device app. The extent of further functions that GM’s mobile apps for the Volt are still something of a mystery, but if stuff like SmartStart is any indication of the possibilities, tasks like popping the trunk, locking and unlocking the doors, hitting the panic alarm, and starting the car are likely additions. Some GPS integration for finding your parking spot would be handy too. Another wired-up car, the Ford sync, has a few mobile features, but they’re pretty much all related to handsfree calling, and don’t take advantage of the possibilities smartphones have to offer as well as the Volt seems to be doing.
[via GM-Volt]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
