> I hadn't considered that, but I have got plans to communicate with my
> mobile phone (Ericsson I888) over infra red.

The HAM TNC idea allows for full time connectivity at a reasonable rate of speed with no cellular costs, and without waiting for a dialup connection. It's just always up when the car is on!

Can you control the Ericson via the IR? If so, perhaps you could get it to spit the SMS out to the empeg for display, but why? I do like the text to speech idea, that's neato! It would be fun if the music faded out when you got an SMS, and the text was spoken.

-Dane