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Ford's new dashboard info-tainment interface....and it's from Blackberry!!!


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Confused on if you were posting because you thought this was new news or posting just for the article. Sync 3 has always been reported to be Blackberry QNX based.. if it was the latter, then ignore my post lol.

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yes...I remember the thread, but it started with "rumored to use ONX". Honestly, I don't keep up with the "techy-techy" part of the auto biz and I have had zero complaints about the MyLincoln Touch in my MKX...but as a shareholder of Blackberry...the article does interest me....curiously, would my system be able to be re-configured to run this system or would the entire hardware portion of my system need to be replaced to support and run SYNC 3?

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From what I have seen, it will certainly perform faster and slicker than MFT. :worship: (Though I have no real complaints with MFT in my SuperDuty).

 

I will say though, that the graphics are generic to me. :baby:

 

(I have not mentioned this before, but I think the analog gauges in the new models lack imagination also) :drop:

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Not to take anything away from the new QNX software, but honestly the quality of the new hardware is what I want to hear more about. The MFT-era screens started as merely acceptable and never really improved, while the processing power always seemed a bit on the thin side. I want to hear that the new screens look and feel modern when the reviews start rolling in.

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Has Ford ever explained why it went to a light color UI vs the dark color UI on the older gen MFT?

 

I don't really care for it, since it clashes with the rest of the interior.

Seems to be the general technology trend. Look at IOS and the newest Android OS version. White shading everywhere.

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Come to think of it that's how fords navigation system (09-11?) prior to MFT was. Gray and white during the day and black and gray at night.

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Yup, main menus were white and blue during the day, black and blue at night. Nav was white in the day, black at night.

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I'm partial to a dark background (somewhere between #333333 and #3D3D3D) with light text, but not quite white (somewhere between #F5F5F5 and #EFEFEF)

 

Anything that has a night mode I instinctively switch it on (whether it's an app on my phone or when I'm coding in Sublime / Text Wrangler). Dark on white just kills my eyes.

 

However in a car with bright sunlight, high contrast with lights and darks (reversed at night) probably works quite well.

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