My Ford Touch Thread

[pil__]

I just had to share this. This is straight out of a new Ford commercial. They showed the real (old) MFT. I guess we can't really say Ford is whitewashing MFT for prospective buyers...

[PJFan]

The SD card fault is a nice touch!

[aperson9923]

The editing team must have been on vacation. This is pretty bad...

[Doctor Drew]

I went to NAIAS tonight, and they had a brand new Escape with the updated version of MFT. I must say, I found the system pretty responsive and easy to use.

I think once you guys get this update, it will totally change your opinion of MFT.

I do wish it had a capacitive touch screen, as the resistive screen that seems to be standard for MFT is sometimes less-than-perfect. We're all spoiled by our iPhones and Androids though.

edit: I guess what I'm saying is...I would totally get MFT.

[voip-ninja]

The reason for resistive screens in automotive applications is due to users wanting the system to work if they are wearing gloves.

Also, I hope the new update makes people happy, but I'm still very disappointed that there is no official announcement at CES about support for AppLink on the MFT system. That is a major major shortcoming of the MFT platform... you will get better integration with smartphone apps on the lower end Sync system than on the flagship MFT system.

[jbird1955]

I was listening to the latest interview (done at the Detroit Autoshow I believe) and this Ford person stated that this latest version of MFT will be a lot better and faster. He then eluded to the fact that this system has two separate processors, one for the system and a second for graphics and then to my complete amazement he admitted that the previous software (the one we all have) doesn't use the graphics processor, that everything is done through the system processor.

Who the heck wrote this stuff and left that piece of the hardware out of the code (and are they still employed)? I'm blown away at that (and also that they'd admit to this mistake).

Joe

[TiPilot]

Originally Posted by Doctor Drew

I went to NAIAS tonight, and they had a brand new Escape with the updated version of MFT. I must say, I found the system pretty responsive and easy to use.

I think once you guys get this update, it will totally change your opinion of MFT.

I do wish it had a capacitive touch screen, as the resistive screen that seems to be standard for MFT is sometimes less-than-perfect. We're all spoiled by our iPhones and Androids though.

edit: I guess what I'm saying is...I would totally get MFT.

I'm heading to the NAIAS tonight myself - looking forward to playing around with MFT 2.0 as well. If there's anything interesting that I haven't seen on here yet, I'll report back!

[Iceplayagt14]

I'm having an issue, I have the MFT w/SAT&NAV and bought my car 3 days ago. Brought the car home, and it says Information in the top right corner! I know I bought the GPS, because the USA/CA SD Card from Ford is in the SD Car slot in the center console. I also paid the extra money for the MFT/NAV/SAT package. Is there anything special I need to do on my end or is this a dealership thing they gotta do? Thanks!

[aperson9923]

Originally Posted by Iceplayagt14

I'm having an issue, I have the MFT w/SAT&NAV and bought my car 3 days ago. Brought the car home, and it says Information in the top right corner! I know I bought the GPS, because the USA/CA SD Card from Ford is in the SD Car slot in the center console. I also paid the extra money for the MFT/NAV/SAT package. Is there anything special I need to do on my end or is this a dealership thing they gotta do? Thanks!

Do you have the SD card in right?

[TiPilot]

Probably not a new one, but I'll add this anyway...

In radio display mode (red screen) and listening to FM, use Sync to change to Sirius, all the presets go blank on the MFT screen, but I can use the steering wheel <- / -> to switch thru them normally. Press the Home button (to go to quadrant view) and the six FM presets are shown even though it's clearly playing Sirius (station/track are listed on the bottom-left red corner). Go back to FM and then back to Sirius, all via Sync, nothing changes.

Use the MFT screen to switch to FM and then back to Sirius (via button presses) and everything's normal - Sirius presets show up on screen.

Just another odd quirk/issue...