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Before I call T-Mobile I want to ask my readers a question

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By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, November 30th, 2006 at 2:29 PM

Bluetoothlogo_1 I will be going to CES this January and I would like to blog from my hotel room if I have some spare time. If it’s anything like the last 2 times I was in Vegas, I’m going to be charged $10 for 24 hours worth of internet access. That is excessive and just plain thievery. Now my laptop has bluetooth and so dos my E61. I tried using the Nokia PC Suite, as well as Windows XP’s built in network manager to attempt to go online via my GPRS connection.

I’ve failed. I can’t get it to work. I don’t really want to call T-Mobile and ask for help because I think they’ll try and just sell me their laptop connect data plan, instead of actually offering me any technical support. Now I’ve googled the issue, tried several things, including changing the number that is dialed, but I haven’t gotten it to work.

Any suggestions, tips, or tricks, would be greatly appreciated. I wish the Nokia Network Bridge worked over bluetooth, it makes more sense to me as well to use IP pass thru as opposed to making your Nokia mobile a modem. Having to select a carrier, finding out the login, password, number to dial, it’s a headache! IP pass thru however is what the Nokia PC Suite should be using as well.

So Nokia: either add bluetooth support to the Nokia Network Bridge, or enable IP pass thru on the Nokia PC Suite. Please. Plane leaves first week of the new year, if I can’t get help from you, my readers, then I’ll just end up calling my carrier.

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About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Nona Maas

    Do a Google on E61 bluetooth DUN.

    Posted wirelessly from a laptop via bluetooth via T-Mobile GPRS.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    not finding anything

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    Well hey I guess Howard Forums isn’t crawled by Google or something.

    You’re trying to be helpful, and that’s cool, but a direct link to the post you’re talking about would be helpful instead of having to jump thru 138 pages.

    Thanks

  • kiara meza

    I have a question I have a sidekick id and it won’t let me reseve nor send a e-mail what is that about ?