Mercedes Revealed Its Concept Infotainment System, @yourCommand

At the Mercedes-Benz TecDay 2011 event in Germany, Mercedes revealed its concept infotainment system, @yourCommand, a voice- and gesture-controlled cloud-based system in the F 125 research vehicle. While that system is a few years away from being integrated into production vehicles, Mercedes also announced that in a few months it will begin selling a new infotainment option developed specifically for the iPhone.

Mercedes didn't provide much detail about the future infotainment system except to say that it will leverage the iPhone's processing power "to create a revolutionary user interface with fluent transitions and animation." The car maker also said that various iPhone information and functionality will be displayed on the in-dash display, and will be accessed using the COMAND controller.

Earlier this year Mercedes released a video of the A-Class concept's infotainment system, which appears to be designed around the iPhone. The concept system accesses social media and entertainment applications, and the graphics of the system are a lot more, um, flamboyant than the restrained COMAND Online system. Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche is slated to deliver a keynote address at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, which would be an obvious place and time to reveal a new iPhone-centric infotainment system.

While Mercedes appears to be doubling down on the iPhone infotainment option, other platforms aren't being entirely ignored. The car maker also announced that in 2013 it will implement MirrorLink to support the seamless integration of Nokia, HTC, and Samsung smartphones with COMAND. For the moment, smartphone integration is limited to the Media Interface Plus (MIP) and Mbrace iPhone application. Mercedes will also introduce Near Field Communications smartphone pairing in COMAND in 2013.

Source: cnet.com

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Four Mercedes-Benz Vehicles Hailed as the Most Beautiful Cars of 2011

After nearly 23,000 readers voted in the 2011 Autonis design award, four Mercedes-Benz vehicles got an award, which means that these cars are visually appealing.

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Mercedes-Benz C-Class won the medium-size category, getting more than 2/3 of votes. In the luxury category, the CLS four-door coupe placed first, surely because of its excellent design and sportiness. On the other hand, the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster got the thumbs up from readers, this is in the cabriolets type of car. Lastly, the legendary 300 SL, which still attracts this generation despite the design being 60 years now, got the “design icon of recent decades.”

The Autonis design award is based on reports on surveys done by “auto motor und sport” and it has become the “beauty contest” of cars.

Source: www.benzinsider.com/

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Changes to the all-new third generation Mercedes-Benz M-Class are evolutionary, with crisper styling and more standard features than ever before. That means a more upright familial nose, a wood-and-leather-trimmed interior, and technology that can detect when the driver becomes drowsy. While no staffers were blown away by the conservative styling cues, many were impressed by the ML’s interior packaging, which offered plenty of seating room front and rear for even our taller staffers, as well as one of the more spacious cargo areas with minimal wheelwell intrusion.

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We were impressed with the ML350’s on-road handling given its larger size and weight, especially with the optional active anti-roll bars. If there was a common complaint on the Merc’s road manners, it was that the suspension tune was too firm. Nevertheless, we were generally impressed with the Mercedes’ road manners and versatile nature, especially as a vehicle to eat up the highway miles.

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Source: MotorTrend.com

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