I am a new member and new N800 owner, but I have had palm smartphones forever.

Isn't the whole point in getting a 3rd party app like USBmodem or PDAnet - to mask the data from the N800 (or laptop) so that to your mobile provider it appears that the data came from the phone?

For my plan with US:Sprint, I have an unlimited data plan for all data coming from my Treo 755p. But if anything links to that phone, I believe I am charged 2cents ($0.02) per KB. Those pennies add up.

Again, I am a newbie - but am I missing the point? Do some of you not get charged a PAM (Phone as modem) charge?

-WC-