>Does anybody in this community have some first hand experience with this?
The problem's in the manual -- they should have said "more than about 2 meters from the transmitter".
Also, there's a big difference between phones. Older analog phones were a bit like a CB radio in the way they worked and how much power they put out but they're all but extinct now. A modern phone emits virtually no radiation, especially when its not being used.
All electronic design is a compromise, nothing's exact, so the designer makes a lot of compromises, usually trading off cost for function. One of those compromises is packaging so its possible that the designer of the EVO focussed more keeping the radiation generated by the unit in the unit than worrying about external sources penetrating it. This may have caused a problem with sensitivity to external radiation which they then 'fixed' using the classic engineeering technique of changing the manual . This isn't a real fix -- so if there's any interaction at all between a cellphone and the EVO I'd just send the EVO back and get something else that works.
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Veronica's comment about talking and flying isn't realistic. Full-size pilots do it all the time. The problem with cellphone use and driving is that people just don't priortize driving over other tasks. Its difficult to differentiate between people who are disciplined enough to do this and those who are not so there's a tendency to just ban the phones. This tends to get out of hand -- you end up with dumb situations like the recent one in England where the government spent an enormous amount of resouces prosecuting someone for having an apple in their hand (it had rolled across the seat while cornering). Hands free phones aren't the answer either -- its not holding the phone's that the problem, its the talking. Anyway, IMO there's really no comparason with circling in a thermal and careening across a crowded parking lot in a SUV.
Martin Usher
BTW -- My Prism Tx synthesizer module is cell-phone resistant (even the old sort).
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