Volvo offers up more details on 2015 XC90 and its new infotainment system

We have more details on the 2015 Volvo XC90 and the all-new, touch-heavy infotainment system that will debut with it. An expansion of the Sensus system, as we've shown you before, we now know the new system won't only sport a large, vertically oriented touchscreen, but a head-up display and the ability to manage the systems via wheel-mounted buttons.
Key to the entire experience are the large, portrait-oriented touchscreen, a head-up display and the thumb controls you can see on the face of the steering wheel in the image above. Volvo is claiming that this combination will be easier to use and, fittingly for the Swedish manufacturer, safer.

"Using the screen is so logical that it will become part of your muscle memory very quickly," said Dr. Peter Mertens, Volvo's senior vice president of research and development. "Information, navigation and media are high up and easy to check. The phone controls, application icons and climate controls are located low, comfortable to reach and touch. All of this logic is based on extensive usability and user experience research and the latest technology."

We already know the system boasts Apple's CarPlay system, but Volvo has revealed it will also offer up an Ericsson-based cloud system, a Bowers & Wilkins stereo, a HERE navigation system and, depending on the market, a range of connected features. Those include internet radio (apps like TuneIn Radio, Stitcher, Pandora, iHeartRadio and Rdio should all be found in some capacity) or the ability to find and pay for parking while on the go.

Take a look below for a press release on the new system, as well as a video detailing some of the new apps that will be coming. Finally, be sure to hop up top and take a peak at the range of images we've been given, detailing the new infotainment system's functions.