Mini Coopers with iPaq's integrated :)

[americaneagle]

Okay, this is cool! I was doing a little searching on Google and came across this by accident. I am not a Mini fan but I found this realllly interesting.

Here is what caught my attention....


MINI will be offering a fully-integrated portable Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) in the form of the iPAQ pocket PC from Compaq. The hand-held PDA slots into a bracket on the dashboard above the speedo and features up to four inter-connected systems that download information digitally. When not in the MINI, the PDA can be connected to a desk-top PC allowing any relevant information to be up- or down-loaded.

The four systems are Navigation, Telephone/SMS, MINI Assist/MINI Online and Entertainment and each can be customised to the MINI owner's requirements. Integrating all four systems offers features including navigation, traffic news, text messages, e-mail, an address book, news, entertainment information, links to the emergency services and weather. Additional hardware and software offers the opportunity to download MP-3 music files and convert the PDA into a mobile 'phone or digital camera.


Here is a photo from the page, read the article it's fascinating.... Now if Ford, Dodge, and Chevy would catch up with them.... Groan... :(

http://www.mini2.com/images/news/ipaq_thumb.jpg
http://www.mini2.com/news/news134.html

[Zack Mahdavi]

Wow, that looks really cool! Unfortunately, I think it will be a distraction on the road... I'll pick safety over coolness any day.. :)

[Blue Zero]

Looks weird... :wink:

Like something I would make in Photoshop. HAHAa

[Pony99CA]

MINI will be offering a fully-integrated portable Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) in the form of the iPAQ pocket PC from Compaq. The hand-held PDA slots into a bracket on the dashboard above the speedo and features up to four inter-connected systems that download information digitally. When not in the MINI, the PDA can be connected to a desk-top PC allowing any relevant information to be up- or down-loaded.

The four systems are Navigation, Telephone/SMS, MINI Assist/MINI Online and Entertainment and each can be customised to the MINI owner's requirements. Integrating all four systems offers features including navigation, traffic news, text messages, e-mail, an address book, news, entertainment information, links to the emergency services and weather. Additional hardware and software offers the opportunity to download MP-3 music files and convert the PDA into a mobile 'phone or digital camera.


Yeah, but Ed posted about it last August (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3763) -- including the same photo, I think.

Steve