On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:47:34 +0100, Roland Perry wrote
In message k, at
08:33:21 on Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Stimpy remarked:

That raises something about which I've often wondered. My car has an iPod
socket so I sometimes use the iPod controls whilst driving. It's not a
phone so is using it specifically prohibited?

The prohibition on "using" a mobile phone would not apply to an iPod,
but *would* apply to the almost identical activity of accessing "iPod
functionality" within an iPhone.

Technology-specific legislation is almost always misguided, and in this
case the law is very specific to certain specified phone technologies.


Indeed. So let's assume it's not forbidden to use an iPod. It could,
however, be argued that using the iPd functionality on an iPhone is illegal.

Now consider the case of iPod Touch which shares a common user interface with
iPhone and, apart from the ability to make phone calls, is all but identical
to an iPhone.

Would using the iPod functionality on that device be illegal?

It's can of worms innit? :-)