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HondaLink

Honda, known for low-resolutions navigation systems in the past few years, is introducing a fancy cloud-based smartphone integration. It will pair with your iPhone and Android device's data network to use apps such as Facebook, Yelp!, Twitter, et cetera. It can also be used to stream radio, or listen to podcasts. It can be personalized from a computer, a smartphone or a tablet. HondaLink can speak out loud content in your Facebook account, your Twitter account, and books. Like other new infotainment systems in other cars, HondaLink can send texts just from your voice, but it won't let you do anything on your social media accounts. 

To connect your Android device to HondaLink, you have to use Bluetooth, but iPhone users have a choice between USB and Bluetooth connectivity. 

There is also a version of HondaLink made specifically for, you guessed it, electrified cars. This system will debut on the Fit EV, and it will display EV information along with your other app stuff. In the future, HondaLink EV will be fitted into the Accord plug-in hybrid. 

The regular version of HondaLink can be experienced by Honda buyers on certain trims of the 2013 Accord and Crosstour. Not much information has been let out on production versions of those cars yet.

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