Drive Link
The Korean company Samsung continues to be determined to position itself in the Samsung market and tablets, but not only with their hardware and terminals, but also developing all kinds of applications to use on these devices. Thus, after its S range of applications, it presents Drive Link, a complete and comfortablecopilot for our traveling by carAnd we say copilot because it goes much further than a simple GPS navigator, offering complementary functions to driving.
Thus, Drive Link is presented as a useful application for any trip, offering three main functions while driving: being guided step by step to our destination, listening to music and talk in hands-free mode All this through a simple applicationin its use, since it presents large and comfortable buttons to avoid distractions while driving In addition, it is developed with MirrorLink technology , the standard connection protocol to connect our terminal to the on-board computer and use the car's speakers
As soon as we start the application we find an intelligent welcome screenHere, we can see the weather information, current time and date, so we can get an idea of our trip. Also, the folks at Samsung jumped at the chance to make Drive Link compatible with another of their apps, S Calendar , showing our appointments and important data of this calendar on the welcome screen. Even if any of these appointments has a address, we can click on it to be guided to it
Just by sliding your finger you can access the main screen of the application. As we say, it has large buttons to avoid having to take your eyes off the road more than necessary. Here we find the three main functions to access them with just a touch of the screen.The one on the left comprises a music player with all those tracks stored in the memory of the terminal, being able to listen to them through the car stereo, if we have connected it. It should be noted that this function is compatible with the application TuneIn Radio, where thousands of stations from all over the world are collected , to listen to them on our journeys.
The function located in the middle is that of the navigator With it we can be guided step by step to any point that we want. To do this we can save addresses in advance or enter them at the moment In addition, the possibility is surprising to indicate a new address to go to via a text message received during navigation. Thus, a simple touch on that address in the message will serve to establish it as destination pointAll of this with practically no distraction from driving, since Drive Link has the “text-to-speech function ”, to hear all messages, emails, and social media updates
Finally we find the handsfree A convenient dialer to make a call without losing focus on driving. In short, a very complete and useful application reminiscent of Nokia Carmode for terminals with operating system Symbian In this case, Drive Link will be available on the flagship device ofSamsung, on Galaxy S3, and soon it will reach other terminals with operating system Android 4.0 or higher Of course, it is recommended not to be distracted while driving, trying to establish destination preferencesbefore starting the trip
