scott wrote:
> Oh yes, my current car and my last car had that.  It means when someone 
> calls you the car can display the name of the person from the phonebook. 

I have that too, but that's because I bluetoothed the contact list from the 
phone to the car. They slowly drift out of sync, of course, and it doesn't 
work for anyone else's phone.

> Note that the phonebook in most phones is stored in the phone and not on 
> the SIM card, because the SIM card has very limited storage capacity.  

Actually, I believe it's because the SIM card is very slow, so the phone 
caches the values when you put the SIM in.  I was under the impression the 
SIM cards stored everything of interest about your phone. I could be wrong.

> Also it means if you want to call someone you can scroll through the 
> address book on the car display and not have to use the tiny buttons and 
> screen on your phone whilst driving.

Yes, but for me that's because I copied the phone book into the car, not 
because the car is getting it from my phone real-time. It also means the car 
is using the radio in my pocket, running off tiny batteries, rather than the 
radio in the car running off a 20-pound lump of lead and acid.

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