New Geely Mirrors Your IPhone Screen Sideways For Guaranteed Neck Injuries

by Mark Stevenson

Published: May 25th, 2015

new geely mirrors your iphone screen sideways for guaranteed neck injuries

Chinese Geely is offering up smartphone integration in the most Chinese way possible…by just copying the screen, no matter what the screen orientation. Personal injury lawyers: your Chinese golden egg has arrived thanks to tweaked necks as drivers try to swipe up and down on Tinder.

According to CarNewsChina, this is the new Geely Englon Haijing SC7 and it features either the worst Photoshop ever for press photos or the worst smartphone integration on the planet. Or both. Even the home button on the pictured iPhone is on the wrong end.

[Source: CarNewsChina]

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Anomaly149 on May 25, 2015

The biggest problem with automotive connectivity is that the average age of a smartphone is 3-4x less than the average age of a car. Making the car a fancy touchscreen for a phone is a great idea from that perspective. Heck, with the number of B&B that advocate for used cars, it's the only way to not have to live with Sync 1 for the next 5 years of your life.

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- Sjalabais on May 26, 2015
  
  I agree with you, and mcs's version that dooms your post tl;dr. It looks stupid now, but by just copying a phone's screen, leaving app choice, processing and upgrade-ability to the phone, you actually get a working, up-to-date touchscreen in the car. It's an obvious and fantastic idea. If it works. Now Apple has been known to work with car producers about phone integration into cars, Geely's Volvo among them. Which approach are they going for? You may end up paying more for something that's worth less to the second and third ownet of the car.
  
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Mcs on May 25, 2015

Even sideways it still beats the hell out of most factory systems.

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- WheelMcCoy on May 25, 2015
  
  "Even sideways it still beats the hell out of most factory systems." I think you're right. Once the app is running -- Google Maps, Waze, Apple Maps, -- ii will rotate to the correct (landscape) orientation. For better or worse, the text messaging app will also rotate. Smart users will just move the car related apps to their own page.
  
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- Undefinition on May 26, 2015
  
  Bingo!
  
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Kyree on May 26, 2015

I'm more alarmed that they would consider releasing a car with that dreadful indigo interior lighting...

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Hifi on May 26, 2015

And this is the company that owns Volvo. Such a shame.

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