With each week that passes, we get new versions of what Car 2.0 is really all about. Earth2Tech just produced a collection of eight cool iPhone apps for the next-generation automotive autocrat, and today comes word of a slick-looking, new LTE Connected Car. It’s equipped with 4G/Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband access technology, and includes independently operated touchscreens, video on demand, an in-car Wi-Fi network, advanced navigation and more. It’s an attempt to showcase for manufacturers and consumers what kinds of Internet applications and other digital content 4G might usher in for cars.
The concept car, a 2010 Prius, comes from the ng Connect Program, and Alcatel-Lucent, Atlantic Records, QNX Software Systems, Toyota Motor Sales, chumby and Kabillion partnered to create it. Here’s a tour of the interior, plus some of the car’s capabilities.
Consumers “will be able to access network- and cloud-based applications that put on-demand entertainment, infotainment, diagnostics, navigation and much more at their fingertips,” according to the annou