[geeks] cell phones!

Kris Kirby kris at catonic.net
Wed Apr 10 17:01:37 CDT 2002


On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Ethan wrote:
> 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.

Newsflash: Even the notebook phones were 3W. I have one. And a bag phone.

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