Tuesday, January 23, 2007
When running linux, you sometimes want to connect to a cell phone (using it as a modem) over bluetooth.
Different cell phones use different RFCOMM channels to export their Dial-up Networking service on.
Here are the commands to use to find which channel you should use:
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
SyncML saves your data
I have been looking at the SyncML standard as a solution to keep the calendar on my palm pilot in sync with the calendar on a Nokia 9500 on the off chance that I don't want to carry two devices at once. SyncML was first developed for synchronizing cell phones, so the [...]
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Short instructions on how to use a Bluetooth enabled cell phone as a modem (allowing you to log into the Internet while mobile). A few of the commands are T-mobile specific (Look for internet3.voicestream.com), but most of the rest would apply to any service provider. With T-Mobile, you must have an activated data plan to [...]
Note! This phone works better than my previous phone but the user interface is somewhat kludgy. Once you work around its misdesigned phonebook and confusing and inconsistent menu system it does work without crashing (as my sony T610 was prone to do whenever using bluetooth). I’m willing to trade some UI uglyness for a phone [...]
Thursday, January 11, 2007
I received a Motofone F3 from India today. (A website I had read indicated they were tri-band, so I asked a friend to bring me one back from India. Unfortunately, they are dual-band, and they are the two bands NOT used in North America, 900/1800, so it won't work with any US providers.) The [...]
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Executive Summary
The Nokia 9500 Communicator is an extremely powerful and feature rich PDA with a phone on the back cover. When closed, its styling can be generously called Retro or ungenerously "a brick". But when you open the clamshell, it reveals a beautiful color widescreen (640×200)
Photos of the Nokai 9500 Communicator, next to a Motorola [...]
Don’t buy the iPhone!
Don't buy the (first-gen) iPhone (new)!
The iPhone looks amazing. Coming from Apple you know it has to be slick, and the demos and reviews from people who have actually played with it back that up. I'm sure it will be a great phone and music/video player that will sync seamlessly with your Macintosh personal [...]