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New Audi A8 includes Google app that brings new edge connectivity for 2010

Exciting new technological advances make their debut in the new Audi A8 for 2010 with the option of Google information services channelled into the model via the internet.

The state-of-the-art online services allow the new A8 to retrieve up-to-date information from the internet via an optional integrated GPRS/EDGE modem in the latest generation MMI navigation plus. The driver will have the ability to type in desired points-of-interest powered by Google and integrated with the Audi navigation system.

The results are displayed on the onboard map through an 8inch LCD display so drivers can plan out their easiest or quickest routes. Using your sim card, routes can easily be transferred between vehicle and home via the mobile phone network.

First shown as a prototype with Google in January 2006 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, USA, the new online services can be experienced in the new A8 as a result of a close collaboration between Audi and Google development teams worldwide.

By mid-2010 Audi will further enhance its suite of online services with a new UMTS modem. This enables faster data transfer as well as simultaneous voice and data connections, and allows Audi to set a world first with the integration of Google Earth in the MMI navigation plus.

Lucky customers will discover the world from above through high resolution three-dimensional satellite and aerial imagery for the entire globe, backed up by a worldwide database of photos and information articles. The Google Earth imagery and 3D terrain model are combined with the detailed street network from the onboard navigation database in a seamless integration of online and offline content.

Not only will Audi customers be able to drive a more economically friendly vehicle, they can happily navigate between destinations too.

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