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| How well does Caddy s tech stack up to Ford Sync and MyFord Touch The Cadillac User Experience (CUE) is GM s best shot at catching up to Ford Sync and MyFord Touch. In the new Cadillac XTS, CUE comprises a glass cockpit with touchscreen, voice control, three USB jacks plus an SD slot, and some different bells and whistles than Ford or Lincoln offer. The Cadillac and Ford/Lincoln interfaces are pretty close in desirability (details below). CUE and Sync/MyFord Touch both need a couple hours of training before the user feels comfortable. That s why Cadillac includes an iPad 3 with the XTS owner s manual and a CUE simulator: so you can study up. Who s better? It doesn t matter. Here s why: On ease of use and functionality, the GM and Ford offerings are more alike than different. Neither Cadillac CUE nor Ford Sync come close to matching Apple Siri for conversational voice control that requires zero training. Cadillac and Ford/Lincoln both cover the basics with USB connectors and Bluetooth audio, and bells and whistles such as Pandora. Both automakers are in love to a fault with capacitive touch. Still, the big Cadillac sedan has plenty of other intriguing tech including an all LCD instrument panel the so called glass cockpit that you can reconfigure; electromagnetic shock absorbers; and that capacitive touch center stack. You get safety alerts via a haptic feedback (vibrating) Safety Alert Seat. Cadillac vs. Ford: What Caddy brings to the gameThe Cadillac User Experience is new this year with the XTS luxury sedan, which ships in a couple of weeks, and then on the new ATS compact sports sedan and revamped SRX crossover. On the XTS, CUE comes standard on all but the entry model. There s an 8 inch LCD touchscreen (800 resolution) in the center stack with a capacitive touch panel immediately below with just 14 buttons, probably a record for modern car low button count. There are also mechanical buttons for flashers and engine start. The LCD display icons can be moved around, favorites promoted to the top row, and non favorites demoted or removed. The CUE instrument panel is a 12.3 inch, 1280 LCD panel (base model excepted, which has traditional gauges) with four basic themes: Simple, Enhanced, Balanced, and Performance. Within the themes you can have some choice in what s displayed where and how big that you change around while the car is stopped. You can have a secondary navigation display in the middle or off to the side but you cannot have it big. Pictured above, the navi display set into the speedometer ring is less than 3 inches across, about the same size as navigation on a five year old cellphone. GM couldn t offer me any plausible reason, noted thousands of hours of research went into the CUE interface, and said CUE is an evolving interface. As for designing any instrument panel you want in your XTS, as long as it has a speedometer and doesn show movies, then transferring the layout to the car: fuggedaboutit. You can use swipe and pinch gestures on the center stack to zoom the display or flick one piece of information over to be shown on the instrument panel. For an unskilled CUE user familiar with smartphone and tablet gestures, Trojans 32 O.J. Simpson White Stitched NCAA Jersey it natural to try them out. Good move by Cadillac. What s in Ford Sync and MyFord TouchFord brought out Ford Sync in 2008 in conjunction with Microsoft. Sync provides a USB connection for playing music from an iPod, USB flash drive, or other music player; and Bluetooth hands free audio for your phone and streaming Bluetooth audio. It was introduced at $395, now costs $295, and is standard on upper trim levels. An enhancement to Sync called MyFord Touch became available with 2011 models Wolverines 20 Mike Hart Blue Stitched NCAA Jersey that added an 8 inch touchscreen; a WiFi hotspot; and a media hub with two USB 2.0 jacks, an SD Card slot (available for navigation or media playback), and RCA jacks. Sync equipped cars can send unassisted mayday calls at no charge as long as the driver has paired Bluetooth phone running. Navigation costs just $795, an industry low until the recent Hyundai Azera (standard) and Nissan Altima ($595); GM now matches Ford $795 price on cars where GM offers SD card navigation. Users dinged the ease of use of MyFord Touch, as did Consumer Reports, which recommended not buying most Fords and Lincolns with MyFord Touch or MyLincoln Touch. Power and Associates Initial Quality Survey plunged from fifth to 23rd; Lincoln fell from eighth to 17th in that 2011 survey. Ford a) said MyFord Touch isn t really that hard to use and then b) hustled up several fixes including increasing the on screen font sizes, simplifying the interface, stamping out bugs that made Sync crash, and speeding up response time. The fixes were mailed to owners on an 8GB USB key they could install themselves in about an hour, or Trojans 47 Red Stitched NCAA Jersey have a dealer do the upgrade. Next page: A blow by blow comparison of CUE vs. Sync and MyFord Touch 1 of 3Tagged InMore Articles Biology of the mind: Is consciousness merely the result of evolution, or something more? (Live video) Feb 22ET deals: $250 off Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, with 256GB SSD, Haswell CPU, 3200 screen Feb 21Why Netflix streaming is getting slower, and probably won get better any time soon Feb 21Samsung Galaxy S5: Hardware specs, software, and release date rounded up Feb 21Samsung strongly hints that Galaxy S5 will be waterproof, rugged, massively cumbersome Feb 21
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