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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.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Understanding the structure of the universe
via religion is like understanding the
structure of computers via Tron.
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