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Hello all!
As I'm trying to take full advantage of my new PPC, I'd like to explore connectivity posiibilities. In order to use a BT-enabled phone to get on the internet on my BT-enabled PPC, do I need to have a subscription to mobile internet service through my mobile provider, or is it some sort of dial-up thing? My mobile provider is T-Mobile.
Thanks!
shady
As far as I know, you need a service called GPRS through your provider. However hopefully someone with more knowledge than me will come along soon and let you know.
I would also try calling T-Mobile and asking them.
Hello all!
As I'm trying to take full advantage of my new PPC, I'd like to explore connectivity posiibilities. In order to use a BT-enabled phone to get on the internet on my BT-enabled PPC, do I need to have a subscription to mobile internet service through my mobile provider, or is it some sort of dial-up thing? My mobile provider is T-Mobile.
Thanks!
shady
Shady:
I get on the Net with my laptop connected to my Sprint phone via USB. The reason I mention that is b/c Sprint lets me do unlimited surf, and data every month for $15. I am sure that if Sprint would ever come out with a suitable BlueTooth phone, this would work well from the PPC as well.
L8r,
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T-Mobile, last I checked, offered $20/month unlimited data, when "attached" to a voice plan. I have their service, it works well in places that have coverage. GPRS speeds over by T610 phone are 3-4 Kbytes/second. My understanding is that you can get $30/month data plan without a voice plan.
I'm moving to Cingular, which has a $40 unlimited plan (but you have to call to get Pay-Per-Use off your bill). They presumably have EDGE and also coverage to my new house.
I use T-Mobile to download sometimes over 20 Megabytes per day in RSS feeds and podcasts and videocasts using FeederReader directly to my Pocket PC.
Greg Smith
Author, FeederReader - The Pocket PC RSS reader and podcatcher
Catches video, too! www.FeederReader.com - Download on the road.
I use GPRS through AT&T on a T68i phone (old I know). But it works ok, I can do email, web, RSS, and Terminal server while sitting in the passenger seat doing 70mph down the highway.
Hey, Maybe this will help--I found two great places that can help you get your PDA connected to the Internet. If you want to do it manually it might take some time. If you are up for it Geekzone has a good tutorial that helps you configure and share the internet by using your Bluetooth enabled desktop or notebook with internet access as an internet gateway for your iPAQ Pocket PC with Windows Mobile 2003: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=1421
Otherwise you can get software that does it for you. This is what I have found to be the easiest way: http://www.bvrp.com/link_GPRS_Manager.htm
Since I just got a work-issued Treo 650, this has become a bit of a quest for me. I have unlimited data access via AT&T/Cingular, and wanted to use the BT connection on the phone for Internet access on my hx4705 ppc.
Little did I know, this is ONE CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECT!!! Check out these sites for more on the issue of mobile providers INTENTIONALLY turning off the DUN features on BT enabled phones. Apparently they are doing this to disuade users from using their phones for anytime/anywhere and reasonably priced Internet access on laptops and devices like Ipaqs. http://www.shadowmite.com/ http://discussion.treocentral.com/sh...0&page=1&pp=20
By the way, I have yet to get mine to work. My AT&T/Cingular rep explained they are issuing a update ROM patche to allow these types of connections in the next few months. Yeah right...
Interesting. I didn't think to use my smartphone as a modem to my notebook. I guess I was too dazed and amazed by actually using Pocket IE and Opera directly on my phone itself.
Here's a link with step-by-step for using a Windows Mobile 2003 SmartPhone as a modem. http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/ar...ont_paginate,1
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