[geeks] cell phones!

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

The slickest thing was the Motorola Star Tac with the Vehicle Docking
Adapter. You slid your Star Tac into the mount on your dash. When docked the
following happened:
1) a hands free mic and speaker were connected, often the audio was routed
through your stereo.
2) a 3 watt RF amplifier and external antenna was connected.
3) your batts were rapid-charged.

I always wanted one. I had Star Tacs, but not the $350.00 for the dock.

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Ethan [mailto:telmnstr at 757.org]
~ Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 4:38 PM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: Re: [geeks] cell phones!
~ 
~ 
~ > Maybe instead of building a phone into the car like 
~ Mercedes does, they 
~ > should build the hands-free setup into the car and you just put the 
~ > connector on the dash into your phone... and it comes with a free 
~ > cell-phone holder as well.  Perhaps a well designed speaker-phone 
~ > [filters road noise] also.
~ > Andrew
~ 
~ Do you remember the older Motorola "bag" phones? They were the
~ car and transportable phones that Motorola sold before the flip
~ phones became popular. They were perfect. They had a mic above the
~ driver, the handset in the cradle... So good. And Motorola did make
~ a cradle for some of their earlier handhelds.. that would dock the
~ phone with an outside antenna (and even a 3 watt booster if you had
~ money). I'm not positive, but I **THINK** it would be possible to wire
~ the car mount handset from the Motorola "car phones" to their early
~ flip phones with the way their protocols worked.
~ 
~ Now everything is tacky hack accessories with cigar lighter plug
~ in modules with microphones in them and stereo feeding speakerphones.
~ 
~ *sigh*
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