Driving on the phone.

[Fed]

Anyone remember rolling the 4 Pennies down the groove?

[Blue Shadow]

Originally Posted by Fed

Anyone remember rolling the 4 Pennies down the groove?

Christ your old. And I do remember

[arronm]

That's why I bought a car with lane departure. Makes it safer to text

[GO FURTHER]

I remember when mobile phones (I mean bricks) first came out and were $7,000 to buy.

The joke we used to say to make out we were wealthy was when someone rang you in the car.....

“Do you mind if I put you on hold for a minute... My other mobile is ringing”.

Of course in those days it was legal to hold a mobile phone while driving.

[au350hp]

Originally Posted by Olbucko

But then we were all in the same boat, now a tradie or contractor working from his car would be totally uncompetitive without a mobile.
Back then urgent meant some time by the end of the week, today it means in the next hour.

Funny thing is, 30 years ago tradies actually turned up when they said they would

[commodorenutt]

I wasn't quite old enough for the suitcase mobiles, but my first one was a solid plastic & steel brick not much smaller than a paver. I remember my best mate's dad had a full-on "car phone" in his work ute in the late 80s - it was a number of boxes bolted in behind the seats, and would flash the lights & honk the horn when it rang. The handset was on the console, connected with a curly cord. We used to wait until he'd just sat down to lunch & ring it....


I had one of these car kits back in the mid 90s:


My mate used to get drunk, and if we pulled up at the lights beside a car with young ladies, he'd grab the little remote handset, pull it through to the back, and pretend he was talking on a phone like in a limo. It failed to impress the many girls he tried it on....

Anyone under 20 these days would have no idea about 8-segment LED displays, and times before SMS could be done on the phone.

[davenl5l]

Originally Posted by uniacidz

Don't go there

They are allowed during the course of their duty and trained

Legally allowed.

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With radio communication and on board computers why would they need to be on the phone while driving ?

[ronwest]

Originally Posted by Fed

Anyone remember rolling the 4 Pennies down the groove?

Me!

Anyone remember super-gluing their foot to the floor of the phone box when trying to make an "unlimited" std call?

Yes....me...

[uniacidz]

Originally Posted by davenl5l

With radio communication and on board computers why would they need to be on the phone while driving ?

Have a really good think about it

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[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Olbucko

But then we were all in the same boat, now a tradie or contractor working from his car would be totally uncompetitive without a mobile.
Back then urgent meant some time by the end of the week, today it means in the next hour.

To me it means in the next six months, I don't even answer the phone on site, that's what messagebank and emails are for.
I figure, if you can employ a Stonemason next week there must be something really wrong with him to be available.
I see builders who spent all day on the phone and I'm the one who has to listen to their "on speaker" conversations all about nothing they could have arranged when they got home.
I wonder why owner builders pay these guys hourly rates to talk relentlessly on the phone its been 2 weeks for 2 guys to build a small deck I could have built by myself in a week.

rant over.

[Big_Daz]

Originally Posted by commodorenutt

I wasn't quite old enough for the suitcase mobiles, but my first one was a solid plastic & steel brick not much smaller than a paver. I remember my best mate's dad had a full-on "car phone" in his work ute in the late 80s - it was a number of boxes bolted in behind the seats, and would flash the lights & honk the horn when it rang. The handset was on the console, connected with a curly cord. We used to wait until he'd just sat down to lunch & ring it....


I had one of these car kits back in the mid 90s:
image

My mate used to get drunk, and if we pulled up at the lights beside a car with young ladies, he'd grab the little remote handset, pull it through to the back, and pretend he was talking on a phone like in a limo. It failed to impress the many girls he tried it on....

Anyone under 20 these days would have no idea about 8-segment LED displays, and times before SMS could be done on the phone.

My old man worked for Telstra for 40 years so always had the "newest" mobile phone... I remember the Phone in the Case you had to carry around from when I was a young feller.. He still has one in his shed actually... And the first carphones, etc.. He had them in his company cars. Was funny to see the technology evolve....

My nephew(14 years old) had the ****s when my brother wouldn't buy him a new iPhone and he was stuck with his "brick"... They showed him the mobile phone in a case and that shut him up.. ha ha..

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Big_Daz

My old man worked for Telstra for 40 years so always had the "newest" mobile phone... I remember the Phone in the Case you had to carry around from when I was a young feller.. He still has one in his shed actually... And the first carphones, etc.. He had them in his company cars. Was funny to see the technology evolve....

My nephew(14 years old) had the ****s when my brother wouldn't buy him a new iPhone and he was stuck with his "brick"... They showed him the mobile phone in a case and that shut him up.. ha ha..

I can remember the size of the battery you had to carry around with it.

[GCRXR6]

Originally Posted by Fed

Anyone remember rolling the 4 Pennies down the groove?

What groove.

[GCRXR6]

Originally Posted by commodorenutt

I wasn't quite old enough for the suitcase mobiles, but my first one was a solid plastic & steel brick not much smaller than a paver. I remember my best mate's dad had a full-on "car phone" in his work ute in the late 80s - it was a number of boxes bolted in behind the seats, and would flash the lights & honk the horn when it rang. The handset was on the console, connected with a curly cord. We used to wait until he'd just sat down to lunch & ring it....


I had one of these car kits back in the mid 90s:
image

My mate used to get drunk, and if we pulled up at the lights beside a car with young ladies, he'd grab the little remote handset, pull it through to the back, and pretend he was talking on a phone like in a limo. It failed to impress the many girls he tried it on....

Anyone under 20 these days would have no idea about 8-segment LED displays, and times before SMS could be done on the phone.

Oh yes...the early days of mobile phones...laughs aplenty. Wife and I were enjoying a cupa in a local shopping centre as this dude walked past, talking quite loudly into his large phone. Making a great impression he thought. Ohhh the look on his face when the flamin' thing rang.

[malazn mafia]

Originally Posted by uniacidz

Don't go there

They are allowed during the course of their duty and trained

Legally allowed.

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lol they are still subject to the laws of cause and effect. Seen a video of a nsw police HighUndies iMax Van slam into a row of stationary cars at a traffic light. You guess it, mr constable was using his phone while driving.

[malazn mafia]

Originally Posted by commodorenutt

I wasn't quite old enough for the suitcase mobiles, but my first one was a solid plastic & steel brick not much smaller than a paver. I remember my best mate's dad had a full-on "car phone" in his work ute in the late 80s - it was a number of boxes bolted in behind the seats, and would flash the lights & honk the horn when it rang. The handset was on the console, connected with a curly cord. We used to wait until he'd just sat down to lunch & ring it....


I had one of these car kits back in the mid 90s:
image

My mate used to get drunk, and if we pulled up at the lights beside a car with young ladies, he'd grab the little remote handset, pull it through to the back, and pretend he was talking on a phone like in a limo. It failed to impress the many girls he tried it on....

Anyone under 20 these days would have no idea about 8-segment LED displays, and times before SMS could be done on the phone.

Why would the phone honk the horn when ringing isn't the purpose of a the phone ringing to alert the driver , not other drivers of an incoming call ?

[malazn mafia]

Originally Posted by arronm

That's why I bought a car with lane departure. Makes it safer to text

A wealthy client of mine bought a Mercedes GLE and was bragging about the autonomous braking , lane departure control and the ability for the car to follow the car in front. And he could watch the footy and cricket on the ICC, and text while driving..

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by malazn mafia

A wealthy client of mine bought a Mercedes GLE and was bragging about the autonomous braking , lane departure control and the ability for the car to follow the car in front. And he could watch the footy and cricket on the ICC, and text while driving..

And any accident damage is covered under warranty yeah? What happens when the rental car on their next holiday doesnt self drive or self park? To be fair i own an older car with parking sensors and stuff, but i drive a newer car with nothing and I can manage to park it and even change lanes on my own. I think it's called driving, not sure if thats the correct word. Also the auto is crap in the ute because there is no D position and you need to push the clutch then move the shifter to make it shift. It sucks because you cant just keep looking up stuff on the phone.

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by malazn mafia

Why would the phone honk the horn when ringing isn't the purpose of a the phone ringing to alert the driver , not other drivers of an incoming call ?

The phone was wired to the horn so one would be alerted to the phone in the car if they weren,t in the car at the time,ie on a work site,same with the flashing headlights.The base was set up so the lights and horn didn,t go off when the engine was running.

[au350hp]

Originally Posted by Tassie f100

The phone was wired to the horn so one would be alerted to the phone in the car if they weren,t in the car at the time,ie on a work site,same with the flashing headlights.The base was set up so the lights and horn didn,t go off when the engine was running.

My father worked for Rothmans Tobacco all his life and in the late 80's, they fitted the reps & managers cars with the phones you describe with the horn/lights combo. Needless to say, they all hated them! A few years later, the phone that you could plug in to the car or carry with you. Still was the size of a paver though. Motorola comes to mind.

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by Roostercam

My father worked for Rothmans Tobacco all his life and in the late 80's, they fitted the reps & managers cars with the phones you describe with the horn/lights combo. Needless to say, they all hated them! A few years later, the phone that you could plug in to the car or carry with you. Still was the size of a paver though. Motorola comes to mind.

In the 91 cressida my dad had as a work car, it had a wired car phone. Later dad got a Motorola brick that had a massive 8 minute talk time from the big battery. The small battery was weak. And the pull up Arial and the charger where you'd take the battery off the phone to put the charger like a battery drill. The analogue phone network got canned in 98 so Nokia 5110s were the replacement. I may be a tad off but my first phone was a new 5110 in 97 on the changeover to a digital
network . I dont really remember as i was only 10 but in general the numbers sort of work out.

[commodorenutt]

Got my first digital - an Alcatel brick, in August 1995. Reception was woeful - even with a pull-up aerial. There simply weren't enough digital towers around. It came with a cradle charger & a 2nd battery that sat in the rear slot of the charger. It survived a number of falls off ladders & other risky tumbles, but you couldn't kill it. My wife had a Motorola Flare at the time. I replaced the Alcatel in November '96 with a Nokia - the 1610, which even came with a VHS video to show you how to use it.... The Nokia 5110 came out a year or 2 after that, and is probably responsible fo the well known Nokia ring tone that invaded everywhere for a good few years.

I always stuck with Nokia for my own phones - having a string of them, including the 8210 (tiny little thing now - the first one that lit up blue), 3210, and I think it was a 6230 or something - the first with a colour screen.
The last 2 I had were the camera-style slider 6111, and the E71 with a full keyboard, before going iPhone since Sept 2008.

Work phones were an interesting mix of Nokia, then O2 Atom things, then back to Nokia - the 6233 was one of my favourites - it was just easy to hold & use.
The the last 6 or so years have been Samsung.

Amazing how far they've come in such a short time. Something like 15 years ago it was pretty much green LCD screens and beeping ring tones.

[.:4:.]

Well...

[arronm]

Nokia 5110 was my fist phone 1998. Was tiny compared to other phones. Also had t he trady 5140

[ronwest]

Originally Posted by Roostercam

My father worked for Rothmans Tobacco

Was that at Blaxcell St, Guildford?

I used to have a girlfriend lived up near the school.

[malazn mafia]

Originally Posted by arronm

Nokia 5110 was my fist phone 1998. Was tiny compared to other phones. Also had t he trady 5140

Fond memories of the in-car Motorola car-phone my old man had in his EBII ford falcon. It was permanently attached to the car via a pigtail cord that went under the centre console. Then when the EF came along, they had the Ericcson GH688 mobile which had a detachable cradle, and the voice would come through the radio speakers automatically while docked. There was also a microphone mounted above the drivers door. The good old 90s though ....

[Olbucko]

From 2000 to 2015 I had 5 different Nokia's that just slotted into a cradle screwed to the dashboard, the cradle automatically made the phones light turn on, connected it to the external roof aerial, the charger, the mike near the sun visor, and activated the auto answer and hang up, made it totally hands free. If you wanted to make a call you could program in 9 numbers that you could call by pushing just one button. A better set up than many of todays "smartphones"

[stig_3754]

Originally Posted by Olbucko

From 2000 to 2015 I had 5 different Nokia's that just slotted into a cradle screwed to the dashboard, the cradle automatically made the phones light turn on, connected it to the external roof aerial, the charger, the mike near the sun visor, and activated the auto answer and hang up, made it totally hands free. If you wanted to make a call you could program in 9 numbers that you could call by pushing just one button. A better set up than many of todays "smartphones"

Except that with 'Smartphones', you don't need to screw any cradles into the dash, nor connect to any antennas, and with bluetooth you can answer the call with a press of a button on the steering well, as well as use voice control to dial a number/contact. A much better setup if you ask me...

[GO FURTHER]

Originally Posted by Olbucko

From 2000 to 2015 I had 5 different Nokia's that just slotted into a cradle screwed to the dashboard, the cradle automatically made the phones light turn on, connected it to the external roof aerial, the charger, the mike near the sun visor, and activated the auto answer and hang up, made it totally hands free. If you wanted to make a call you could program in 9 numbers that you could call by pushing just one button. A better set up than many of todays "smartphones"

I must say, I do miss the dedicated Nokia cradles with built-in charger port.
Slip your phone in and it charges straight away, no silly USB cables to worry about.

Why is it so hard these days to buy cradles with built-in lightning or micro USB connections for Andriod and iPhones?

[commodorenutt]

Originally Posted by GO FURTHER

Why is it so hard these days to buy cradles with built-in lightning or micro USB connections for Andriod and iPhones?

I haven't had any issues - but you do have to spend reasonable $$.

I have a Brodit cradle I use all the time (mounted to a Nokia mount ironically).
I initially bought to suit a Galaxy S3 I had at the time. I found the S7 I have now (which went back to a single micro-USB) slipped straight into it - with the plug aligned perfectly - all I had to do was dremel out the more rounded corners (to suit the S3) which now lets the S7 sit in it perfectly, and charge on the go.

If you get on ebay & type in your phone model and "brodit" you'll most likely get a number of hits - particularly from the UK. It may cost you $70 or so, but it's worth it.