Thread: Cellphones: Why do they enforce 'smartphones' upon us? Why...

Uh... what? Sounds like you're complaining because you don't have a way to connect your car computer to the cell network? I don't know how it is in your country, but in the USA it's as easy as either hitting the "tether" button on my phone, or buying a USB cellular modem. I assume it's the same most everywhere around the world, since these modems are advertized as being "world capable" :P

It appears obvious that you do not talk about the same thing as I did.

Your response is so unrecognisable with regard to the issue raised by me that I don't know what else to say.

Except maybe, try to read the text displayed at Youtube. Focus on the description of the construction principle. Which should not be hard to comprehend, because it is the one you know from home computing.

Like I said: This self-suggesting construction is terra incognita in the US, for reasons only to be speculated about.

After thinking again, feel welcome to ask the real questions. I will then be happy to assist.

i read the youtube wording(why couldn't you just post it here?) and still don't understand what your trying to do...

Ok. You people (assuming you're in the US and Canada) haven't had what we used to have in Europe; besides this was also exported to Australia and New Zealand, to my knowledge. That's the reason why you simply can't comprehend a very easy thing, so let me explain.

Think back: What came before handheld phones? Right: carphones. But in Europe, we had an intermediary stage, before our wise industry chose to slavishly follow the inferior US model. We had handheld phones that could easily be temporarily converted into carphones, so to speak. How was it done? Makers offered a specific carkit for many of their models. A carkit, correctly mounted, established connection to the car battery, the roof antenna, a microphone and a loudspeaker (or through your car stereo's speakers). The moment you put your handheld phone into the carkit's cradle, it had the same performance as a carphone. Plus you could connect your laptop, because the phones already had a modem. The only downsize was that then (2G), speed was too low to make surfing attractive.

This all changed with the advent of 3G. So the logical thing would have been to continue the success formula just described, only at 3G speed now. Industry, possibly influenced by government, decided otherwise, however. First, the exterior antenna contact was removed. Then, the makers offered no more carkits.

Nowadays, there are a few specialty makers who do offer general-purpose carkits. As there is no more external antenna contact in handheld phones, they use inductive coupling, instead of galvanic coupling. Not quite so good, but better than a freely radiating phone inside your car - because of your link quality, link range, safety from radiation.

But these general carkits have lots of flaws. Like the one mentioned by me, Audio 2000 from german maker Funkwerk Dabendorf (FWD): The microphone volume is too low, there is no possibility to connect your netbook to the Nokia E5's mini-USB contact (covered by the cradle), plus the audio contact is unsafe. If you finally have managed to drill a hole into the holder so you can connect your netbook, have fixed the audio contact so it actually holds a steady contact, then there still is no solution to the low-microphone problem. Plus it appears the swiss stasi have visited my car overnight and manipulated the black box, because I can no longer hear through the loudspeaker, something that yesterday was still possible. I didn't touch anything since then.

So my guess is, government simply don't want us to have these things. There is no law prohibiting us from having/using these things, so they have their will this way. But will we accept it?

Now try and understand the construction principle first. Start with forgetting all the hype you're being flooded with on a daily basis and use your common sense instead, that's probably the only way to get there. Then you will be rewarded by a new insight: namely that this IS the superior construction principle, it easily beats any 'smartphone', which - apart from the technological achievement as such - rather is a dumbphone.

We need to demand that makers like Nokia, Ericsson etc again make handheld phones with an external antenna contact and a specific carkit for each model. And of course such that permit galvanic connection of one's netbook to the phone's HSPA modem.

good points made , they may ever come to fruition ,sadly.

Thank you. Yes, it seems we have a powerful lobby acting against us. What can we do then?

First thing might be to open up a website, in order to spread the word. This issue should not be explained in many words but rather in images and videos, so most people get a chance to comprehend it.

Unfortunately my practical knowledge - with regard to producing such websites - is quite limited, in contrast to the subject as such. If we manage to get a team of dedicated fans together where everybody can contribute his useful share, then we might make it work?

Would you be willing to join? What could be your part?

Again regarding my own part. As mentioned, I have the experience how it used to be in the 2G era, and it would be easy to transcend this method to 3G, if only the hardware were completely available. I am also ready to do more, but the problem is that - according to my impression - the swiss 'stasi' actively counteract every significant move I make. I manage only to inch forward, and if I for an exception manage to go a foot, then they come overnight, open my car and create a new technical problem.

In case you think I'm 'nuts', then I suggest you read

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance

Also this video is quite interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lacabh6xgPg

It's probably not government. Rather, it's the lack of a market for "carkits". You need to remember, smartphones market in the millions. If it doesn't sell in the millions, it's considered a failure. Now say they sold only 500,000 "carkits". This would have been a massive failure compared to smart phones and they would have discontinued the carkit product.

The government doesn't even want you to have smartphones in the car, let alone a carpc or a "carkit". They want to keep their sheeple nice and safe.

Um, regardless of whether the antenna is inside or outside, the waves are still going to be going through the car, so your worry about radiation is just silly. If anything, a bigger antenna on the car would just amplify the radiation, rather than keep it away from you. The radiation from a cell phone is really not that much, and once it's a couple feet away from you like it would be if you put it in a car dock, there's really nothing to worry about. All of us come across far more dangerous things than cell phones every day.

Other than this strange request for an external antenna, all of the stuff you rambled on about can be accomplished with various combinations of aftermarket equipment available today. Use a car charger to "connect to the battery" (I'm guessing you mean powering the phone), use a bluetooth module to get a microphone and audio over the car speakers, and the CarPC stuff can and has been done by pretty much the majority of people on this forum.

> tripzero:

We don't know if it's government intervention or mere economic decisions. Like I said in the video text, in the US there is a strong 'not-to-be-outgunned-by-the-people' mentality among the powers-that-be, and our rulers over here have the habit to slavishly copy much of what they find west of the Atlantic. Obviously, a laptop (rather than a smartphone) in your car, and properly connected to the internet through the cellphone HSPA modem, and everything running over a roof antenna, is a professional formula, which puts you on equal footing with law enforcement.

I see here in Switzerland that they attempt with all stealth means at their disposal to keep me from reaching this goal. They deliver faulty equipment, they don't assist you when it comes to removing the flaws; when you manage to do it on your own, the 'stasi' come overnight, open your car and create you new technical problems - just as if it were unlawful to have this equipment in your car. Ever heard of Switzerland as Heidiland? Forget it, it's Stasiland.

Think about my arguents. And consider a model how we quality-minded people still could get there, against the political food chain and its evil intentions. There must be technology-savvy people sympathising with us, not hired by the government or the economy?