06-09-2007, 01:17 PM
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Carmakers may delete CD players
Never-ending advances in digital music devices, the take-them-everywhere cell phones and finicky customers who expect to customize their vehicles with portable devices, will push CD players out of most vehicles as early as 2012, said Frank Homann, vice president of Siemens VDO's Interior Electronics Solutions group.
Many manufacturers already are putting new sound technologies in vehicles.
For the past two years, DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler Group has offered its U Connect system to allow people with Bluetooth phones to connect to a speaker phone in the car. It recently introduced the My Gig system that will burn CDs to a 20 Gig hard drive in the dash
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