Why do you need a clone? I haven't tried it, but my MY05 does have the phone hardware installed. What would keep me from buying a prepaid SIM card like this and just putting it in? 7 bucks for the card and refill as needed... says that it's GSM compatible so I wonder if it would work?

jca3 - I think you are on to something. I have a MY06 with the factory phone option. We had (until 2 days ago) a t-mobile family plan. Wife & daughter had the t-mobile phones & I kept my t-mobile SIM card in the PCM phone slot @ a cost of $9.95/month. The cell phone that I used most of the time was my work Verizon Blackberry. That ended 2 days ago when the t-mobile contract was not renewed since they are now AT&T iPhone users. This was caused by the Christmas generosity of our son but I was left out to fend to myself as far as the "Porsche Phone" was concerned. jca3 you made a light go on in my head & that is, use the "pre-paid" SIM card that we used this summer in Europe. The SIM card is "t-mobile.co.uk" and it still had ~ $25 left on it. Tonight, here in Florida, I put the uk SIM card in my unlocked t-mobile phone and it comes up and connects to AT&T. I take out the uk SIM card and put it in the Porsche & go for a ride. While driving I called a friend over in England and it works like a charm however it will not let me call any number in the USA. Therefore tomorrow I'm going to t-mobile to buy pre-paid phone SIM card.

well, I have used sim card off my iphone in my 997.1 PCM, it worked great.

I have telephone option next to the shifter if that makes better sense.

I ordered my 07 C2S with the phone option. My ATT sim card has worked great since day 1.

sorry I am still rather confused on this issue, so for 997.2 bluetooth'd optioned cars can't use the sim card slot functionality? I'm simply asking because I hate having no functionality with my iphone as a phone when its connected as my ipod.

any thoughts or suggestions from the wise?

OK, took me awhile, but I finally got around to trying this. I bought a T-Mobile prepaid SIM card, activated it, and it works like a charm. $6.99 startup costs, then pay as you go with no contract. Brilliant.

When you connect your iPhone to PCM 3.0 and use it as iPod, you still have phone capability/functionality.

ditto. It's a bit of a hassle taking the SIM card in and out but when I know I'll be on the road for a bit it's really nice.

You can hook up your iPhone and it accepts it? (My iPhone 3G rejects the cable......it looked pretty specific as to work with iPod only). My iPod Nano works fine.......iPhone no. I've just been using the Bluetooth link for phone service and that works perfect.

Good to know.

The only problem I've got with such an approach is the car then becomes a different cell number from my personal cell. If on can get a clone from one's own cell SIM so the car becomes a clone of the pocket phone, that would be ideal.. but since verizon is CDMA... I'm hosed on that front.

True. There's always call forwarding.

That is true, and if I got enough calls while in the car to justify the additional phone service and forwarding my personal cell to the car.... I might consider it. ;-)