I just got a virgin mobile phone, and am wondering how to connect to my N800 with it, so I can use the internet. I already have mobile web bbrowsing enabbled, but wheb I try to connect to my N800 with my phone to change the services (witch is where I am guessing I can choose the web service) it says can not connect. Can anyone give me a walk through on how to do this right?

Prepaid phones don't come with internet except the phone's internal browser. BT in these phones only supports handsfree headsets, not BT DUN protocol the tablet needs.

I had to hunt through 3 Alltel postpaid phones before getting the MotoROKR Z6m that supported BT DUN. To pair with it, you must set the PHONE to be discoverable, then search for it from the tablet's BT in Control Panel. After pairing, be sure you see DUN supported on the phone's paring. The same phone on Verizon has DUN disabled by the wonderful Verizon bureaucrats who like to disable phone features and try to sell them back to you.

Good luck with the pairing. ONLY Alltel, in the USA, now supports unlimited data for $25/month over DUN. Everyone else has a 5GB limit or such. Verizon specifically forbids anything but web browsing and email for more. I burned up 16GB on Alltel last month cruising around streaming radio, downloading and using rdesktop back to my home boxes. It would have cost me a thousand dollars on Verizon...(c;

Except for AT&T's prepaids still use SIM cards... so you can just pay $20/mo & put it in a USB SIM slot.

Not helpful for this discussion, but... this is not true of all prepaid phones; Boost particularly allows an unlimited (albeit only 19.2kbps) data stream.

I apologize, I don't understand what this means. What is a USB SIM slot and where might I find it?

I wish Alltel served my area (SF) but it doesn't.

I bought my N800 thinking that there was free wifi in the area where I work but that turns out not to be the case. I am trying to find the least expensive way to have wifi. It looks like I can only do this through a phone. I would prefer to have prepaid (I have Virgin now).

Would someone be so kind as to explain to this ignorant newbie the best way to go about this? Much appreciated!

True. With Boost, about $7 a month gets me voice plus unlimited dial-up internet. Instructions here: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...p?t-14059.html

Thanks for that! I read through it all, whew! Is the i605 the only Boost phone I can do that with?

Don't know. I hope somebody has a better answer.

No, the bluetooth connectivity is free. It's the data connection from the phone that costs you.

With Boost, the $7 is for minutes (at least $20 every three months to keep the number), dial-up internet is free.