So, I know this is kinda far out there but since everyone is buzzing I thought I'd ask as well too. About 4 months ago I searched though all the posts on here and some googling, only to find out that there is something odd about the perl, or the Nokia bluetooth stack. Long story story, the perl would not tether to either the 770 or the 800.

Now I see that the 810 supports several new bluetooth profiles. Could this mean that the blackberry perl, and maybe some others might be supported?

And no, I actually don't have a blackberry perl myself. Its actually for someone else who's looking to purchase either a 800 or the new 810, if of course it can be confirmed this feature works. I guess I'll also know when the new firmware comes out and I can load it up on the N800 and try it myself. But I thought I'd just ask to see what other experiences are out there.

I have a t-mobile blackberry pearl. I have the unlimitted blackberry plan.

I can tether both my 770 with 2007he and my n800 with the pearl.

The issue is performance. I find it is almost useless. If I retry hard enough I can sometimes get web browsing to work. I have not really gotten claws email to work while tethered. I have the best luck with meomo mapper. I have had it download maps while driving around. I have never been able to get it download a route while tethered.

All the above works just fine for when connected through a wifi connection.

I don't have another phone to try with so I don't know if the problem is the blackberry or t-mobile. I have read from others that got it working that they also see slow performance and that they thought it could be the blackberry servers (the ones run by RIM that provide data services for the blackberry phones) getting in the way.

I get a 5 bar edge signal at work and 3 bar gprs signal at home and they both provided the same very poor/useless performance.

I am running the latest firmware from t-mobile on my pearl.

If anybody has any ideas on how to improve my tether experience, it would be appreciated.

Hope this helps.

Ron

Ron,

How did you get your pearl to tether at all? I keep getting connection errors. What are the extra at commands, etc that you use?

OK. I got it to tether now. WOrks pretty good for maemo mapper, but I can't donwload anything with the browser. I wonder if the new browser on os2008 will change anything.

ElGatoFlojo are you sure? I was unaware that the Pearl was having trouble with n800 especially since it was the first phone I actually did get to work on my N800. Since then I've had the 8300 tethered will minimal fuss. Could it be a software issue on the blackberry?

Not sure what's different about my setup versus others out there but it was a fresh install at the time and using a Rogers (canada) device.

i have that same problem . . . . it connects but you cant actually get on the net. . . . google talk never even connects. . . im hopen the new software will work

I am hoping 4.3 on the pearl will fix it. I can sometimes with enough effort get browsing to work but nothing reliable. Getting the phone to tether is quite stable. The only thing I have noticed is that once I have the phone tethered. I will need to reboot the phone before I can get it to tether again. I am have .107 from TMO on my TMO pearl.

What firmware version was your pearl? It seems like there is an earlier firmware outthere that works. 4.1.0.66 or 4.2.1.66 or something like that. The latest firmware, 4.2.107, seems to have issues with connecting to the internet. As mentioned, I can download maps with maemo mapper, but that is about it.