Tech Tuesdays: Start Your Car With Your iPhone? There’s an App for That

October 13th, 2009 admin

Remotely start your car to get it nice and toasty in the winter or chill it in the heat of summer? There's an app for that. Directed Electronics releases its free Viper SmartStart iPhone app today, which works with stand-alone Viper remote starter systems or can be added to most existing Viper alarm systems with remote start. It works with the iPhone or with an iPod touch via WiFi, allowing owners to crank the engine, lock and unlock the doors, pop the trunk or cause the horn or a siren to sound with the panic button. Viper claims that unlike keychain remote start systems, the iPhone app has “unlimited range” as long as the SmartStart and iPhone have a signal. The system will be sold…


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