{"id":151206,"date":"2010-01-07T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/07\/video-we-take-kia-and-microsofts-uvo-for-a-test-drive-at-ces\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:58:00","slug":"video-we-take-kia-and-microsofts-uvo-for-a-test-drive-at-ces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/151206","title":{"rendered":"Video: We take Kia and Microsoft&#8217;s Uvo for a test drive at CES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/ces\/\" rel=\"tag\">CES<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/tech\/\" rel=\"tag\">Technology<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/kia\/\" rel=\"tag\">Kia<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/07\/video-we-take-kia-and-microsofts-uvo-for-a-test-drive-at-ces\/#continued\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" alt=\"We Take Kia and Microsoft's UVO for a Test Drive [w\/video]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/kia-press-2010107-1024-08-630.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>Kia&#8217;s UVO system hands-on &#8211; Click above to watch video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/07\/video-we-take-kia-and-microsofts-uvo-for-a-test-drive-at-ces\/#continued\">after the jump<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p> Tucked in between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/nexusone\">Google&#8217;s hot new smartphone<\/a> and a variety of other computer peripheral equipment at this year&#8217;s CES show is a crossover. Not the jacked-up, tricked-out, neon-dragging customized type that we typically see around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/ces\">Consumer Electronics Show<\/a>, but a bone-stock, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/sorento\">2011 Kia Sorento<\/a>. Well, stock except for one option: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/uvo\">UVO<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> We recently got a chance to try out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/31\/kia-and-microsoft-set-to-debut-uvo-at-ces-leave-us-wondering-fo\/\">newly-announced<\/a> system in the plastic, and while impressive in its own right, just hours after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/07\/myford-dash-and-sync-app-ecosystem-hands-on-and-video\/\">sitting down with Ford<\/a> to check out the latest Sync and MyFord Touch, it&#8217;s somewhat less than stunning. But, ignoring that for now, Kia&#8217;s offering looks good and still ahead of the rest of the curve. It&#8217;s functionally comparable to early Sync, enabling easy access to media on 1GB of internal storage, on a USB-connected drive or even on a CD. You can rip from CD straight to internal memory or to a thumb drive, an interesting feature we&#8217;re not sure is particularly useful. The touchscreen display is a nice improvement over Ford&#8217;s two-line Sync readout, but remember that if you get this system, you&#8217;ll have to opt out of in-dash GPS. Good thing you splurged and got that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/droid\">Droid<\/a>, right? Check out some screens in the gallery below, and there&#8217;s a quick video demo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/07\/video-we-take-kia-and-microsofts-uvo-for-a-test-drive-at-ces\/#continued\">after the break<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/kia-and-microsofts-uvo\/low\/\">Kia and Microsoft&#8217;s UVO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/kia-and-microsofts-uvo\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/kia-press-2010107-1024-01_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/kia-and-microsofts-uvo\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/kia-press-2010107-1024-02_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/kia-and-microsofts-uvo\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/kia-press-2010107-1024-03_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/kia-and-microsofts-uvo\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/kia-press-2010107-1024-04_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/kia-and-microsofts-uvo\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/kia-press-2010107-1024-05_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/07\/video-we-take-kia-and-microsofts-uvo-for-a-test-drive-at-ces\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Video: We take Kia and Microsoft&#8217;s Uvo for a test drive at CES<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/07\/video-we-take-kia-and-microsofts-uvo-for-a-test-drive-at-ces\/\">Video: We take Kia and Microsoft&#8217;s Uvo for a test drive at CES<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:58:00 EST.  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Not the jacked-up, tricked-out, neon-dragging customized type that we typically see around the Consumer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}