New Mercedes Apps for Facebook, Google Streetview and Panoramio Coming This Fall

The automotive world is no longer a place where horsepower, torque, styling, and comfort meet, as multimedia is also added on the list of must-haves that any above decent vehicle should offer. And Merecdes-Benz is one car brand that sure knows how to make the most of it.

Only a few months after the launch of the new multimedia generation, Mercedes-Benz is extending the range of integrated apps: new apps for the Facebook online network, for Google Streetview and Google Panoramio will be available for COMAND Online from this autumn.

Streetview enables locations all over the world to be seen in 360-degree perspective views and at street level. Panoramio allows access to millions of photographs which have been taken and uploaded by other users at locations all around the globe.

The COMAND Online multimedia system, available in the SLK, C-Klasse, E-Klasse, CLS and, from the autumn, in the new M-Klasse and the new B-Klasse, now offers internet access for the first time.

All customers will be able to use the new apps. Additional apps which have already been introduced are Google Local Search and Weather and the facility for downloading a route which has previously been configured on a PC using Google Maps and transmitted to the car. Mercedes-Benz is successively extending the range of apps.

But this is not all, as more is yet to come from Mercedes-Benz in the near future. "We are also pursuing research on 3D displays. Three-dimensional on-screen presentations enable information to be absorbed more intuitively," explains Bharat Balasubramanian, Vice President Product Innovations & Process Technologies in Group Research & Advanced Engineering at Daimler AG. "This simpler and faster recognition of warnings provides for a further improvement in road traffic safety."