The iheart app is currently available for iPhone, Blackberry, Android, and Windows Phone 7. It lets you listen to more than 750 Clear Channel stations, mostly from specific cities, with a few genre-oriented stations not tied to a particular market. Live music streams over the phone's data connection.
The new app could act as an interface in the car, allowing one to control the app on a phone. This also opens up the possibility for Toyota to include interfaces or other apps, like those which act as emergency 911 or accident devices.
After the app is installed in the car, it will require a data connection. This could point toward a new strategy by Toyota to build modems into its vehicles - or the app could rely on a data connection provided by someone's smartphone brought into the car. Toyota says it will will reveal details in January 2011.
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