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Pay attention to traffic while waiting 45 minutes to charge from 20% to 80%? That when you don't have to move the car to get a stall that actually works. I know people don't care about games, but some sort of entertainment needs to be added there.
Maybe some prefer to browse Walmart to see "People of Walmart" in real life.
You make a good point. Perhaps when we take our first road the need for a game or Netflix will make sense,
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Can we finally put to rest the b%#@ing and moaning about software updates now?
No. I was told by Very Serious People on the internet that this would never happen. They cannot be wrong. There will never be software updates. Don't believe your lying eyes.
 

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The ad is extremely cringe-worthy, especially the beatboxing, but I like the simpler re-branding going on (Power-Up).

Sketch is a start, but let's get a web browser in there too, please? Youtube, at least?
 

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Sketch pad? Can they just make Ford Play works? And show battery temperature and live power consumption on the main display (and the ability to see the breakdown live on the trip screen). Who needs a sketch pad?!?!
And yes the update are invisible like they say because they don't show release notes...
 

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Sketch pad? Can they just make Ford Play works? And show battery temperature and live power consumption on the main display (and the ability to see the breakdown live on the trip screen). Who needs a sketch pad?!?!
And yes the update are invisible like they say because they don't show release notes...
That's coming, too! At least, the live power consumption is. It was revealed in a youtube video posted on the forums earlier this week, in which a reviewer mentioned that a Ford rep told him it was coming... A bit through the grapevine, but supposedly true.
 


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That's coming, too! At least, the live power consumption is. It was revealed in a youtube video posted on the forums earlier this week, in which a reviewer mentioned that a Ford rep told him it was coming... A bit through the grapevine, but supposedly true.
Can I get a link? This is more important to me than anything else at all.
 

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what kind of simple games?
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The problem with forward mounted machine guns is that they leave too much debris for you to run into. You need phasers on full power to disintegrate the schmo in front of you.
 

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The problem with forward mounted machine guns is that they leave too much debris for you to run into. You need phasers on full power to disintegrate the schmo in front of you.
Phasers are just going to drain my battery pack faster and apparently some people need all that battery power so they can watch Netflix - they can't be satisfied with sketch! :D
 

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There is an Amazon Echo Auto device, but it's not great. It's not terrible but direct integration is always better

This is also a good deal for Ford, though. I haven't used the voice commands built into Sync, because I am always using CarPlay, but I have to imagine it's not great. This gets Ford a good, fully featured voice system that they don't have to do their self and is almost certainly cheaper from Amazon than it is to build in house--and it's better
Actually, you should give the Sync voice commands a shot - they're pretty good. I've been using them since 2014. Oh, and you can be sure Ford doesn't build the engine in house. They're probably using Nuance or something (like almost everyone else does).
 

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Okay buddy you have a great day life too short for me to be worried about stuff like that. Cheers
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