YOUR RESEARCHPCM Phone SIM Deactivated?
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Does the 997.2 come with a built in phone as standard equipment? I have an extra cell phone I'd like to plug into the car via the SIM slot. A salesman told me that the PCM phone and SIM slot are deactivated for the U.S. market. He stated its a "European thing." Is this true?
Yep, was the case for the PCM 2.1 as well. There is a SIM slot but for the US market it's a dummy. (Given US services lock the phones and SIM's, there would be no benefit unless there was some arrangement between Porsche and a carrier. Given most of us have way too many phone numbers, email addresses, passwords, etc to remember, having a working cell phone with a Cayman or 911 attached probably did not rate as a high priority for Porsche.)
Thanks for the info!!!
With PCM 2.1, the SIM slot was useless unless you got option 666 "Module for Telephone PCM." If you got that option, then you could remove your SIM card from your phone, put it in the slot, and you'd have a working phone. Of course, you need to take it out of the slot and put it back in your phone when you got out of the car. Perhaps in Germany you can get two SIM cards for the same phone number and not have to do that, but you can't in the US, so this option is pretty useless and most cars didn't have it. No one wants to remove and replace their SIM card every time they get in and out of the car. Here's a screen shot from the 2008 order guide showing the option. I'm not sure about 2009 and on. I know they have a bluetooth option that 2008's didn't, but I don't know if they removed the SIM option. The way to determine that would be to download the 2009 order guide from this site and look for it. On a related note, the aftermarket Bluetooth solutions for PCM 2.1 basically fool the computer into thinking that they are option 666.
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