Hi, Android is providing a pretty good street navigation, but it might be unlawful to use it within a car in Germany.
In Germany it is not allowed to use a mobile phone while driving with your hands, except with hands-free equipment. It does not matter what functions it has and what you use it for. Just the fact that it is a phone is sufficient for not beeing allowed to use it while driving. Therefore, modern cars in europe have built in phones that access your mobile's SIM card through the remote SIM access bluetooth profile - just sit in your car, and it automagically takes over the phone functionality from your mobile. The mobile saves power, but has no access to the SIM card and thus no phone and internet connections anymore. Unfortunately, the Android OS does not support this bluetooth profile. Android phones cannot be used with modern european hands-free equipment, and thus the Android phone must not be used with your hands at all while driving. So car navigation with an Android mobile does not make much sense over here. But even if Android supported that SIM access bluetooth profile, it would not help, because then the car radio uses the SIM card and the Android mobile would not have phone or internet access anymore. As far as I know, Google Maps and Google Navigation don't have an offline mode and fully depend on an internet connection. (Similar problems in most european countries.) So how would someone use the Android phone in a car in europe? regards Hadmut -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
