New Video Appears to Show iOS in the Car in Action

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Following on from last week’s leak of what were claimed to be screenshots of Apple’s new iOS in the Car, Gigaom reports that the same developer that leaked the photos, Steven Troughton-Smith, has today posted what appears to be a video showing iOS in the Car up and running in iOS 7.0.3.

Here is a complete list of the key features of iOS in the Car, courtesy of Troughton-Smith’s YouTube channel.

• Supports Multiple Resolutions
• Supports touchscreens (presumably single-touch?), hardware buttons, wheels and touchpads
• Does not support multitasking - car display will always show same current on-screen app as iPhone (which can be locked/asleep)
• Whitelisted to specific Apple apps - no public API for developers [yet?]
• Has no keyboard UI - voice recognition as input
• UI clearly subject to change
• Missing functionality in video is due to iOS Simulator not containing all the stock iOS apps

Gigaom notes that Apple is believed to be intending to launch iOS in the Car with the release of iOS 7.1, which is currently on its fourth beta.

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