On 10 Apr 2013, at 13:45, Dirk Koopman <d...@tobit.co.uk> wrote: > On 10/04/13 12:33, Chris Jack wrote: >> On 09/04/2013 09:08, Smylers wrote: >>> David H. Adler writes: >>> >>>> Cellphone Warehouse? >>> Carphone Warehouse -- they aren't a warehouse, and they don't sell >>> car-phones. >> >> >> Which raised the question in my mind about whether anyone sold carphones at >> all. And surprisingly (to me at any rate), they still exist: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_phone >> >> However carphone warehouse doesn't appear to sell even the ones that don't >> really require installation like the Nokia 810. Go figure. >> > > Not certain you can still buy a Nokia N810, but these days (some) car radios > do something a bit cleverer than plain bluetooth audio: they *share* the sim > in your phone (via bluetooth) with their own built in GSM hardware and aerial > and become - yes - a Car Phone! The phone GSM hardware is actually disabled > whilst the car hardware has grabbed the sim and, on some models, if you (can) > use the phone itself, it effectively becomes the bluetooth audio device to > (what is now) the Car Phone.
The phone becomes the car. Like Transformers!
