Last year Hughes Telematics had the Mercedes mbrace iPhone app on display, providing some OnStar-like functionality like locking your car remotely, unlocking your car remotely, and even getting ...

Mercedes-Benz has teamed up with Hughes Telematics to begin offering a new system that allows drivers to enable dozens of their vehicles features with their Apple iPhone or Blackberry.

Mercedes-Benz has just released the updated version of its mbrace app for the iPhone, which gives you your own personal concierge service.Partnering up with Hughes Telematics to bring you this app ...

Two other packages, mbrace Plus and Mercedes-Benz Apps, expire after three months and are $20 a month and $14 a month, respectively, to continue the services, or $28 a month for both.

The new mbrace service extends remote access beyond traditional map websites, offering nine different ways to send destinations to Mercedes-Benz vehicles. mbrace customers can experience enhanced ...

Mercedes-Benz was late to the telematics game, but now that its mbrace system has been available for a while, it's looking like a trailblazer, compared to systems just hitting the market--Hyundai ...

There is also an mbrace Plus package, which you can get for free for three months and then it’s $520 a year. It adds weather, traffic and route assistance for navigation.

Hughes Telematics recently announced its partnership with Mercedes-Benz on the automaker's new line of "mbrace" mobile telematics solutions. The system, which connects mbrace-equipped vehicles ...

The Mbrace 2 has CMDA 3G access built right in, so the system has been designed for seamless over-the-air updates. In the future, Mercedes told us, these could unlock a number of cool features.

Mercedes Benz has launched a new mobile app that will let you control your shiny new Mercedes with your iPhone or BlackBerry, called mbrace.

Mbrace 2 apps are filed away in a fairly standard carousel configuration, which you can roll through quickly with a control knob. Yes, a knob. Unlike touch-happy competitors like Cadillac’s Cue ...