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Saturday 20 February 2016

Talk to your Car with the Honda Connect App

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.

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.

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. 
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.
PIT-Stop Feature


PIT-Stop Feature 

  • Users can setup emergency SOS that can share your location to those contacts in case of any emergency.
Along with these features the Honda Connect App has some other regular features like in any other app that makes it a complete app. 

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/ .

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