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hey it's Josh from garkon mandroid authority what's going on everybody and we are inside of a way 2017 Ford Escape Florida escape 2017 edition that's very very exciting and we have some very exciting news when it comes to Fort at the very least especially for you Android fans out there Android auto has officially come to Ford alright and we have Mike Lambert here who's going to give us a demo of it and you can see we have an extra shot over here of the actual interface so Mike what is Android auto rather let me do it the other way what is Ford bringing to Android auto now so what we're looking at here is our sync 3 system so this is available on select 2016 mowers and all 2017 model year vehicles starting with this floor escape in 2017 so the exciting news for the sync three in this 2017 Escape is that we are integrating Android auto so when you connect Android device which is going to be 5.0 or higher you're going to get the launched up here's the Android auto interface so what that brings to you is you get the exciting Google Maps you get all of your phone information brought in you get media apps as well as a third-party media apps that Google's brought in but what we're doing as sync which is really exciting is that when you look at this screen here where we previously had some sync features that are now kind of redundant to the Android features we've replaced those with Android we've given Android features preference so that way the customer can has chosen to use Android auto as well like Google Maps and all of those features but we're still giving them ability to use their you know native audio systems FM satellite radio their climate features and an easy way to jump right back into things like Google Maps so right from the sink system we've done this kind of harmonious integration between Android auto and sync 3 to really make the two systems intuitive and easy to use for the customer we want to give the customer the experience that they want right so we're giving these projected technologies like Android auto and the customer's chosen to plug in their device and use that so we really want to make that this experience the best we can for them using the Android device and using the Android features like mapping and and media so that's great and of course if to our to our viewers right now that if you're familiar with any Android auto iterations already that is essentially what you're seeing here but it is integrated a little bit better here on the four iterations what cars from Ford will have Android auto already built in yeah so 2017 model year Ford's and Lincoln's will with sync three we'll all get Android auto so they're austell board across the board that's so we don't have great differentiation or anything like that okay in the future actually towards the end of 2016 those customers that have bought 2016 model your vehicles I have sync three we're gonna update their vehicles as well so they're not left out of that all right that's awesome so one sort of slightly offbeat question are there any other connectivity options that are available with the cars especially the 2017 editions like smart phone apps for example or anything like that yes so we offer four connected experiences we offer Android auto what you're seeing here we also offer apple carplay and we offer app link which is kind of the Ford's version of bringing in the connected apps so we love it because it we feel gives it a customer the ability to choose you know they get to choose the experience that they like whether it be app link which they've been using on previous Ford vehicles or these new features like Android auto or apple carplay sounds great all right well that was a quick look at Android auto in Ford cars once again we're in the Ford Fusion the future so I had a problem really I keep thinking of the fusion in the Fiesta those are the two that come to mind because I actually was going to get a Fiesta one time yeah the 16s K 16 Fiesta has sync three exactly well you guys can look forward to if you happen to have new Ford cars I can get upgrades Android auto obviously but in this case we're in a 2017 Ford Escape and we want to thank you for letting us sit in here and you know kind of get away from all of the ruckus for at least a few minutes but we really appreciate it here Mike thank you so much all right well Android auto the future of computing inside of the Ford cars you know so we really like what we see and we really look forward to seeing them in even more so thank you yeah wonderful all right stay tuned for even more about perhaps Android auto but of course all about Android here at CES 2016 as we our Android Authority coming to you live from the show floor