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Originally posted by JohnC
The phone is still in the car and is in perfect condition. It works. Problem is that AT&T's new cellular service, what they call "M Life" in all the ads, is based on the GSM, or general service messaging, standard, whereas the Timeport phone from Motorola is a TDMA, or time division multiplex, standard.
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My miss - caught your mention of AT&T, glazed over on the GSM piece. Big difference, obviously. To my knowledge, Timeports, with MB friendly firmware, were only available in the then-popular flavors (CDMA, TDMA, and even - gasp! - straight analog).
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The car shouldn't care what type encoding the phone uses for sending and receiving signals--the car should care about the control interface bulit into the phone. So what's needed is a phone that uses the GSM standard but can be controlled by the Mercedes interface.
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Agreed. Unfortunately, I don't believe Mot ever produced a MB Timeport with GSM.
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So that's my lecture on cell technology. Wrong website! But you'd think I was discussing advanced mathematics when I try to ask this simple question to my dealer (doesn't get it), Mercedes (doesn't answer) or Motorola or AT&T (fuhgettaboutit). If anyone here has tried this, let me know!
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Simple to some of us (I've got 11+ years at Qualcomm, so I know a thing or two about the various technologies, albeit with an obvious bias towards the best one, CDMA
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I'm afraid your only (fully integrated/use the steering wheel controls etc) option at this point would be to upgrade the controller/cradle/etc to whatever MB is offering now. I went this route on my 01 CLK55 (Timeport to V60c) back in 2002. Worked great, but it was EXPENSIVE.