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board was one of the first car companies to integrate apps into their cards they did that in 2010 starting with Pandora now they've got about 10 apps and they're adding more pretty much every month so let's take a look at the current state of Ford's Appling app link works with the iphone android and blackberry with an iphone you actually have to have the iphone cable to the car to the USB port you have to have the app running on the device so right now we're going to start off with Pandora so I launched the pandora app here and now through the head unit here I can choose my mobile apps Pandora and it'll start looking for Pandora start running it and now it's loaded that up now there's a number of commands I can also use with Pandora once that's running the most useful thing is can actually select the station with a voice command please say a command play station wagon wheel radio and I tells do that it actually recognizes that that channel name now if I wanted to switch apps on the iphone of course I pretty much have to stop and for example say I want to switch to tune in radio which is another app that appling supports well I have to get out of Pendor on here startup tunein radio tunein radio there's other apps you can use on here but as you can see the iphone really isn't the most convenient way to use it with the Android you can actually you have it hooked up via bluetooth you don't have to have the app spree running on the phone so now I can just give it a command please say a command NPR news with NPR news now running via Apple Inc I've got it on the screen here i can use voice command to call it the different channels the different programs that they have on NPR news like car talk or wait wait don't tell me those are all tags so I can use those and because this is an Android I can also switch apps on the fly using voice command so that's very cool appling comes standard with sync which is available on most ford cars like this 2012 Fiesta the current apps that are available for it are stitcher Pandora NPR news mogs slacker radio tune in radio I Heart Radio as a lot of audio oriented apps that are available for seen it I'm Wayne Cunningham and we took a look at Ford's mobile apps in the 2012 ford fiesta