A smartphone app for drivers? Wait a minute, aren’t we supposed to look away from our phones and pay full concentration on the road ahead instead whenever we drive? I suppose there is plenty of sense for the Samsung Drive Link to be introduced, where this is touted to be an innovative in-car smartphone application that was designed for safe use even when driving – especially so, I might add. Constructed from scratch around the three most popular uses of smartphones while driving, they are listening to music, navigating to a destination and talking hands-free. Not only that, Samsung Drive Link will be equipped with its fair share of shortcuts to other useful driving applications, meeting the standards set by the Japanese Automotive Manufacturers Association, which has been touted to be one of the world’s strictest driver’s safety regulation standards.
Drive Link boasts of a clear and uncluttered interface, making it ideal for quick and intuitive use whenever you are on the move. Enlarged buttons will be complemented by a simple menu structure which makes it a snap to navigate through. When you load the Samsung Drive Link app, you will see a welcome screen that shows off the current time and weather information of your location, in addition to saving upcoming appointments in S Calendar while showing them off if there are address information included.
Drive Link will play nice with your smartphone’s GPS features, letting you select preset, recent or favorite destinations, or even look up for a specific address. Should you receive a text message with address information inside while using Samsung Drive Link, you can set that address as your destination with but a single click on the text.
Expect Drive Link to launch on the Samsung Galaxy S3 first, before it makes its way to other Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich powered smartphones. The app can be downloaded from Samsung Apps in 21 countries including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Ukraine, and United Kingdom. [Press Release]
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