Toyota to Entune Autos with Mobile Apps for Navigation, Search & Music

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The Toyota Entune
multimedia system debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show.  Toyota Entune uses mobile phones for fully integrated and upgradeable entertainment,
navigation, and information services.  Users can control the applications by using the touchscreen or voice commands (Bing only at launch).  Entune will be available as an option on select models this year.

After downloading the Toyota Entune mobile application and pairing a
Bluetooth capable phone with their Toyota car, customers can begin
accessing a wide variety of personalized content and services. 

Toyota Entune key features include:

  • Mobile Apps - Toyota Entune debuts Bing, keeping
    navigation continuously up-to-date with more than 16 million points of
    interest; OpenTable - make a reservation at one of 15,000 restaurants;
    and MovieTickets.com - buy movie tickets and read reviews.  All
    destinations can be seamlessly sent to the navigation system.  Making
    drivers' lives even easier, Toyota Entune delivers customizable real-time traffic, fuel prices, weather, stocks and sports.
  • Music - Toyota Entune brings you more music in more
    ways with iheartradio's 750+ hometown stations; personalized stations
    with Pandora; XM satellite radio 170+ channels with coast-to-coast
    coverage; and introducing HD Radio, digital broadcasts of your favorite
    terrestrial music.  Toyota Entune also offers USB connectivity for
    portable media players and traditional terrestrial radio.
  • Voice Recognition - Featuring a best-in-class,
    advanced conversational voice recognition system, Toyota Entune
    eliminates the need to memorize thousands of voice commands.  The
    intuitive interface allows the driver to focus more on the road ahead.

Toyota
Entune is wirelessly upgradeable, so in-vehicle applications are never
obsolete. Ensuring that nearly all customers can take advantage of this
new technology, Toyota Entune is compatible with a wide variety of
mobile phones with a data plan. 

Toyota Entune continues to build on the excellent foundation laid by
Safety Connect, bringing peace of mind to drivers with an added layer of
more personalized and convenience-oriented features.  Safety Connect is
the cornerstone of Toyota's telematics systems providing Automatic
Collision notification, Stolen Vehicle Location Assistance, Emergency
Assistance, and Roadside Assistance on select Toyota models.  Safety
Connect combined with Toyota Entune offers comprehensive safety services
and mobile applications not found in any other vehicle make.

Toyota Entune will be available as an option on select models this
year.  The featured apps of Toyota Entune include: Bing, iheartradio,
MovieTickets.com, OpenTable.com, and Pandora, as well as location-based
services, such as personalized traffic, fuel prices, stocks, weather,
and sports.  Toyota Entune also includes support for read-back and
replay capabilities for text messages.  These are combined with a fully
featured entertainment and communication system, which includes XM
radio, HD Radio, CD player, USB connectivity, Bluetooth streaming and
phonebook.  A high quality JBL sound system is available as an option as
well.