mbrace iPhone App
Posted by iPHi under Apple Related, Applications, Iphone News on Tuesday Sep 7, 2010
Everyone has wondered if they remembered to lock their car. Well now, Mercedes Benz and Hughes Telemetics Inc. (HTI) can reassure you that you have with their newest mbrace iPhone application. HTI and Mercedes Benz released this app in November, but it has been recently updated. HTI president Erik Goldman stated that they “extended to the iPhone app the ability to remotely lock and unlock your car from anywhere in the world.”
In the original app that was released in November, all the services of the updated application were available- but you had to be in the car. Now these things can be done from anywhere in the world. Not only can the new mbrace app lock and unlock your car remotely, it also uses embedded GPS technology to find nearby points of interest. The app can also provide roadside assistance if the user’s car breaks down.
Goldman also stated, “[i]f the car battery dies, you can’t do anything with a traditional telematics system. Now you have a phone app that will automatically call Mercedes. Even if you don’t know where you are, with the GPS in the phone, it will know where you are.”
Even though the telematics system and app is only available in Mercedes cars, other cars may soon be getting the system and app, too. Goldman said HTI is working with some other companies to make a system and application that are similar to the telematics system and the mbrace app.
The basic mbrace package, which comes with the iPhone app, costs $280.