Old 7-Series Car Phone

zuutroy

Hey,
I'm returning to Ireland in a couple of months and wanna buy a 728. I'm just curious if the phones in them actually work, if you can put a duplicate sim in them or anything. I know there's no need for them, but I'm a sucker for a gadget, and I want to look important in a 'Trading Places' type of way on my car phone :pac:

Did a brief google search but came up blank.

unkel

You won't look important using that yoke

And Iwouldn't recommend a 728 - you'll save yourself a few euro in tax, but it is underpowered in a car like that...

craichoe

zuutroy wrote: »

Hey,
I'm returning to Ireland in a couple of months and wanna buy a 728. I'm just curious if the phones in them actually work, if you can put a duplicate sim in them or anything. I know there's no need for them, but I'm a sucker for a gadget, and I want to look important in a 'Trading Places' type of way on my car phone :pac:

Did a brief google search but came up blank.

Depends on if its GSM or old analog ...

You'll look well stupid using it though, seeing as its not hands free and hence cannot be used while driving.

zuutroy

not surprised given your sig! I've looked at your ad before and would love it but between the extra tax, insurance and petrol I don't think I could stretch to it. I'm not really bothered about not having much power. I'm not usually in a rush

Stevie Dakota

728i is a fine drive, and has surprising poke given its size. Of all the E38s it's the one I would go for, 01 or later Sport Model with M-Parallel wheels, nice.

bazz26

Something like this:

Darragh29

bazz26 wrote: »

Something like this:

lol!:D:D:D

unkel

craichoe wrote: »

Depends on if its GSM or old analog ...

They're GSM

craichoe wrote: »

You'll look well stupid using it though, seeing as its not hands free and hence cannot be used while driving.

It's not even wireless. And yes it looks a bit like that, Bazz

Most people have removed them at this stage as they just look embarrassing. It's a DIY job and the replacement cover is cheap

WHITE_P

If it's GSM as in the above post it should work, just put an Irish SIM in it.

zuutroy

unkel wrote: »

Most people have removed them at this stage as they just look embarrassing.

No way, 80's style ftw. Just running the numbers on your car..you may get a call in November if its still available

mike65

I kept the phone my old Merc 190 as it had deffo retro cool.

Mike

L1011

I'd never remove one if I had one, probably even get a specific number for the car (not sure if SIMs can be cloned these days easily anyway?) for serious retro-chic

unkel

zuutroy wrote: »

No way, 80's style ftw.