The reason you cannot exit the Matrix on a cell
phone is because a cell phone is simple piece of software inside the
Matrix, whereas the hard lines are real physical lines traveling around the
post-apocalyptic world, which are represented in the Matrix by normal
telephones. The cell phones are somewhat similar to a instant messenger
program, they are capable of instantly connecting to a certain person or place.
They have very simple protocols that are great at what they do, however are
varying shades of useless for much else.
The hard lines are a whole different ball-game, while equally
simple in operation (for either one you need only pick up the phone and get
ready to talk) the hard lines have a million times more back end support. The
hard lines as I see it have three main parts:
- The
interface, the actual construct of the telephone/ pay phone ect which the person in the Matrix interacts
with.
- The back-end
software and protocols, the software required to actually transmit all that a
person is are infinitely more complex than those required to transmit a simple
approximation of a persons voice, eg, think of how much “fun” it would be to
write device drivers for a wet-ware – non-sentient computer interface.
- The physical
hard lines themselves, the actual physical means of information transmitting
data, whilst the cell phone message is simple enough, that it really does not
matter where you are transmitting from or too, the information a hard line caries is FAR more complex, and FAR less
fault tolerant, and as a result of this to ensure the speed and reliability
of the connection you have to be directly on top of the signal (do you want
your connection dropping packets while its transferring your consciousness…)
this the reason that the interface(part A) has to be stationary, and thus not a
cell phone.
The cell phones are by comparison, almost all part A, with very
little part B, and no part C. They both (hard lines and cell phones) serve
totally different and mutually exclusive purposes, just as you cannot
actually speak to some one on a hard line, you can not exit on a cell phone.
The only thing that is in fact even similar is the interface/construct that
they both use, that of a phone.