Honda, the name that makes us think about best quality Cars
all over the world has embarked into a new dimension of driving and maintaining
Cars with the use of technology with the launch of its app called “Honda
Connect” .Yes it is the 1st of its kind app launched by a Car manufacturer
as a value added service at minimum possible price to make driving and maintaining
a Car a better experience.
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| Katsushi Inoue, President & CEO,Honda Cars India addressing at event |
On 16th January Honda invited some of us bloggers
in Bangalore for an event named “Hangout with Honda” to showcase its Honda
Connect app along with a live experience of usage of the app while driving
around Bangalore city. Bloggers were divided into teams and were asked to
perform some activities with use of Honda Connect app in Honda Cars. During the
event the Head of Honda and PR team of Honda were involved with us bloggers to
make this a smooth experience for us. Getting a live Demo of an app was one of
its kind of strategical launch of any app in recent times.
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| Scenes from Honda Connect outdoor activity |
The Honda Connect App :
Honda connect is an app that makes you talk with you Honda
car day in day out. This comes in 2 part, 1st is Honda Connect app
on your smartphone and 2nd a Honda Connect device for your Car. The user needs to add the CAR detail with all authentic information for first time in app and that is it. There
are around 20 such features in app and all of those are helpful for users in its
own sense.
Some of the most eye-catching features of Honda Connect App are
Share my Location: With the use of this feature your loved one
can easily know your location in real time anywhere anytime, doesn’t matter
which part of city you are driving in . It is really helpful from security
point of view.
Locate My Car : This feature is bit connected with the above
feature and helps you locate your car .This really can be useful when you parked your car in any crowded parking area and have forgotten the exact location.
Trip History and Analysis : This feature of App keep history
of entire trip made by you. The history contains details like over-speed,
sudden hard brake, ideal time and many more parameters. This can really be helpful in analyzing the
trip and make better decisions in next trip and also to make some change in
your driving pattern if required.
Impact Alert : This feature of app connects Honda Car engine
with the Honda Connect app on smart phone and activates emergency call to Honda
service center in case of any hard
impact on Car. Impact can be from accident with other vehicles or uncontrolled
jump or anything else. As soon as impacts takes place, app calls the Honda
service number and then help is on the way within minutes. What more smartness
one can expect from any app.
Apart from these really helpful important features there are
many other features that add value to the app, like :
- App keeps history of your car servicing both done and upcoming and reminds the user about upcoming due servicing. User can book the service appointment with the help of app only.
- App keeps history of Car insurance, PUC certificates so that you don’t miss renewal of any of these documents.
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| The Main Menu |
- Users can keep track of fuel usage with the use of Fuel Log book option in app.
- Users can find the nearby petrol pumps while driving with the help of Pit-Stops option in the app. The Pit-Stops option also contains details of nearest Honda dealers and Service centers.
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| PIT-Stop Feature |
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| PIT-Stop Feature |
- Users can setup emergency SOS that can share your location to those contacts in case of any emergency.
Honda Connect device is priced at 2999 Rs in India with new Honda Cars and to follow all recent updates about Honda Connect visit https://hondacarindia.com/hondaconnect/ .
