After announcing in December that it was dropping Microsoft’s platform for Blackberry’s QNX OS on its infotainment systems, Ford today said the first of the new systems will launch in 2016 models.

Ford said its new Sync 3 communications and entertainment system will first roll out in the 2016 Escape and Fiesta.

Both the new Escape SUV and compact hatchback Fiesta will be on sale this summer, and Sync 3 will migrate to all Ford vehicles in North America by the end of 2016.

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