The first generation of the Ford's SYNC computer was designed in cooperation with Continental AG and is built around a 400 MHz Freescale i.MX31L processor with

The first generation of the Ford's SYNC computer was designed in cooperation with Continental AG and is built around a 400 MHz Freescale i.MX31L processor with an ARM 11 CPU core, uses 256MB of 133 MHz Mobile DDR SDRAM from Micron and 2GB of Samsung NAND flash memory, runs the Windows Embedded Automotive (CE) operating system, and uses speech technology by Nuance Communications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Sync http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Sync The first generation SYNC has a monochrome display (blue or red on black) with a very basic GUI (like a 90s Nokia cell phone). Despite a 400MHz CPU and WinCE the menu is slow and looks ugly, but it is solid and works. Later SYNC generations had a graphical GUI with touch, that's probably the slow Actionscript based one the other commentor mentioned. With the MyTouch issues, several european Ford 2014 models still ship with the first generation SYNC. The SYNC menu features an appstore entry despite the appstore was never activated for non-US models. The Google Maps feature is not available, in the EU version. The MyFord website with additional diagnostic features about the car as well as software update downloads is only available for US car models. There are no updates e.g. for the european models, not from the car dealers nor from Ford website.