Will the iPhone 4S with Bluetooth 4.0 support the Message Access Profile (MAP)

I ask this question as a Ford owner that uses Microsoft Sync or MyFord Touch and would LOVE for my vehicle to support reading my text messages, sending contact photos via bluetooth and finally song titles, artists & album art via Bluetooth and I believe this is the key Bluetooth profile needed.
Any Apple experts/system administrators have any feedback? Thank you!
--Jeff

I think Apple have listening to the users, i miss thiss support too !
jeffandrachael wrote:
I ask this question as a Ford owner that uses Microsoft Sync or MyFord Touch and would LOVE for my vehicle to support reading my text messages, sending contact photos via bluetooth and finally song titles, artists & album art via Bluetooth and I believe this is the key Bluetooth profile needed.
Any Apple experts/system administrators have any feedback? Thank you!
--Jeff

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