Cars operate with a smartwatch: who has the desire?

Posted on 10-09-2014 at 18:53 by Ricardo – 22 Comments”

Tech try you massively to convince a smartwatch to wear. Because you have namely the need for notifications on a small screen on your wrist to read it. Nevertheless these watches are becoming smarter, and it’s not inconceivable to be using a smartwatch to your car to communicate. How Michael Knight do you want to have?

Last night was in Cupertino, the long-awaited Apple Watch will be presented. An iPhone accessory that your health monitors, notifications, displays, and, above all, to indicate how late it is. (Which you can read HERE.) During the presentation there was also a cooperation with BMW will be announced. With the BMW i Remote app for the Apple Watch is using gps as possible to the parking facilities to automatically store, them later via Apple Maps (lol) will be back again on the polsgadget. At BMW’s with a battery pack on board, it is also possible to have the charge level and the range to check.

Yes, they are things that with the regular BMW app for smartphones long as possible, but soon, it may be from the wrist. At least, if you are an Apple user. For the already available Samsung Galaxy Gear has BMW already have an app in the store, which, among other things, the charge status and range can be checked. You can also use a destination to the navigation system of the electric i3/i8, and the climate control operate. Features that will most likely not be missing on the Apple Watch-app.

BMW is not the only one who is on the wrist-equipment focus. Competitor Mercedes recently launched a nice free app for the Pebble smartwatch. Through this mobile application, it is possible to things such as location, fuel level and even or all doors on slot sit down to watch from a distance. Also in the car it will polsuur a role to play. While driving can you through vibrations to warn of upcoming traffic jams and other hazards. Nissan wants to even go a step further and own smartwatch launch, that biometric data of the car can deliver.

It should be clear that the driver is not skipped in the smartwatchhype, a market where over a number of years, billions of in will deal, this is the prediction of analysts. Still, we can’t escape the impression that BMW, Mercedes and other premium brands with horlogeplannen something about the head. Namely, that buyers of a BMW i3, i8 or a stately Mercedes money. And probably enough money for a decent timepiece. This audience is the desire to be with a smartwatch of a few hundred euros to the wrist, as they have already invested in watches that are a multiple of that cost? We doubt it.

Read more about the Apple Watch on Devices.