Smartphone's Technology : a New Arena of City Car's War

Frankfurt (AFP ) - Famous brands now compete to offer smartphone technology for the city car market .
Reuters reported that in Europe , the city car market grew by nearly 10 percent, so the brands that market to seize racing vehicles .

Adam Opel Rocks , New Peugeot , Citroen C1 , Toyota Aygo and all of which will appear at the Geneva auto show this month , each offering a large screen multimedia .
The screen can display the music library or navigation maps stored on the smartphone .
Such features have been proved successful in seizing the upscale consumer vehicles .

Now , the technology is so reliable to seize new consumer group that is young urban " technological literacy " .

" The car previously so upscale features , the vehicle is now in the middle class and lower class , " said Dinesh Paliwal , chief executive of Harman International , maker of the vehicle entertainment system .

" This was driven by changing lifestyles , people still want to connect despite being in the car , " he said .
Compact urban vehicle size is part of the class of vehicle " segment A " .
On the other hand , technology companies also started approaching the automotive sector.

Apple on Monday announced it will introduce a hands-free technology for the driver of the car Ferrari , Mercedes - Benz , and Volvo .
Apple will introduce the technology at the Geneva auto show .
CarPlay , the name of Apple 's technology , making the driver simply move his limbs or use to activate the sound of music , like on the iPhone .

Rocks Adam Opel city car that will be introduced in Geneva , having infotainment system that can connect to your smartphone using the Apple iOS or Google's Android operating system to answer the phone or dictate a message .

The fourth -generation MINI will be launched this month also features a system of " MINI Connected" which is compatible with Android and iOS .