In addition to the new address-upload feature, the RemoteLink app also sends information to users’ smartphones about a car’s oil level, tire pressure, fuel level, and mileage. Thus far, OnStar says the app has been downloaded 450,000 times in North America.

The new RemoteLink mobile navigation feature is certainly not the car industry’s first, nor will it likely be the last, to allow users to send destinations to their cars with their smartphones. and also allow users to perform the task, as well as run other mobile applications. BMW’s ConnectedDrive, for example, can sync data from a Blackberry to the dashboard console with a Bluetooth connection and the audio system reads as you drive. When the car is not in motion, you can read the full texts of the emails from a Blackberry inbox on the car’s dashboard screen. Ford also plans for Sync to read e-mail and text messages outloud, and to allow drivers to dictate messages, in three to five years time.

New mobile-to-car infotainment applications from BMW, Ford, GM’s OnStar, and other carmakers should meet that demand from users who seek to port their mobile apps to the car.

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