Everyone talks about phones that work it seems ...
Well not so with me - how about a failue story (so far)


1. Do you use your Internet Tablet with your phone for Internet access?
- Want to, tried to, but Can't.

2. What kind of phone do you have?
- Samsung Blackjack (well documented about lack of DUN on this and WM5 phones)

3. Was it easy to get working?
- did not work (as yet) with my N810 - as PAN is missing (or deactivated on N810)
and DUN is missing from phone ...

4. Who is your service provider?
- Cingular (AT&T)

5. How affordable is your data plan?
- $40 freaking dollars and I could not use it to tether as yet

6. What else should users know about that phone/provider/plan?
- On the phone itself 3G service from AT&T (formerly Cingular) is fast in America
- Bluetooth works fine with N810 - but no data connectivity
- Plan is expensinve as they hoist a PDA plan on you if you buy a smartphone (very bad)
- avoid WM5 phones like the plague - bad experience with connectivity

1. Do you use your Internet Tablet with your phone for Internet access?

Yes.

2. What kind of phone do you have?

Moto Razr V3t

3. Was it easy to get working?

Dead easy. Took a minute or two.

4. Who is your service provider?

T-Mobile.

5. How affordable is your data plan?

$29.95 unlimited. Includes T-Mobile Hotspots. Actually just reduced to $19.95.

6. What else should users know about that phone/provider/plan?

Great phone/provider/plan. The most affordable total package I found.

I have a Nokia 6110 Navigator (now many people know why I decided to buy a N800 and not the N810) I have Orange Data Flat (2.5 GB for 59 CHF per month) price plan. It was very easy to get it working, just walking through the wizard. The provider was supported. What else? The 6110 supports HSDPA and so fast internet is available on the road and that I'm soon switching over to Swisscom and I'm curious if I should take the 5 GB Plan for 69 CHF or 1.5 GB for 49 CHF or if 100 MB is enough (for 18 CHF) each per month...

I am using a Treo650, running Palm/Zlauncher with custom visual themes.

Unfortuantely Bell Canada still has ridiculous data rates, even for the old 1X network in contrast to the very fast and fairly new EVDO in Ontario. So I remain somewhat stuck between both worlds with my N800 and the Treo. No modem connectivity for me. So the N800 is really for Wifi Home use and media fun and the Treo650 is for very basic mobile work with calendar and phone and notes etc without any integration or easy sharing of data.

example: $100 a month might get you about 300mbs and then $30 per mb after that when over limit. So forget about full size web pages or larger files through that as a modem.

And the address of the proxy is ... ?

Thanks,

Bob

1. Yes (on my new N800)
2. Phone: Treo 755p (palm os)
3. How Easy: Very Easy
4. Provider: Sprint/USA
5. Cost: $40/month (standard price for tethered modem plan, though I'm currently getting a discount due to bad service)
6. Notes:
Obviously Treo has lots of internet and non-internet tricks up its sleeve,
- Treo 755p (palm-os) does a couple of decent things on its own, but anything beyond basic internet access to much for the small screen, hence my purchase of the N800. They make a nice pair.

1. Do you use your Internet Tablet with your phone for Internet access?

> I have it set up for emergency situations or where there isn't wifi access, but typically No.

2. What kind of phone do you have?

> Samsung u740

3. Was it easy to get working?

> Initially no, but 2nd time it was a snap.

4. Who is your service provider?

> Verizon

5. How affordable is your data plan?

> Avoiding 3G access, so I'm just using regular minutes (free nights & weekends!)

6. What else should users know about that phone/provider/plan?

> There used to be a bug in OS2006 (not sure about other OSes) where choosing "Verizon" in the operator wizard would prevent the connection for working. Choose any other provider ("Sprint" for example), then go back and edit the settings to be verizon specific.
In the Samsung u740, you can force the phone to only use CDMA and not connect to EVDO, and use normal minutes instead of having a data plan. Not recommended for heavy / fast use.

My setup:

770(OS 2007) <--> Bluetooth <--> Samsung u740 <--> Verizon CDMA(not EVDO)

1. I will use my phone for internet access (actually this is quite good when you wanna listen to last.fm through vagalume, everywhere basically).
2. I currently have a Nokia 6680 (yeah I know its quite old), but I will get an E51 next year if possible.
3. It will be since this isn't the first time to do DUN via bluetooth for me .
4. Elisa (in Finland)
5 & 6. Well the current setting is a 25 MB in a month for 4 euros, but I will move to mobile broadband with speed cap of 384 kbits/s for 9,90 euros. Other speeds & prices:
max. 512 kbit/s* 14,90 €/month
max. 1 Mbit/s*19,90 €/month (I will get this once I have the E51)
max. 2 Mbit/s** 29,90 €/month (my current ADSL price for a 1M/512 kbits/s per month, so not too bad ) .

1. Do you use your Internet Tablet with your phone for Internet access?
Ocasionally yes, I do have it ready in case of a connectivity emergency. Regularly
I use WiFi but, I I do get trapped in a Place where ni WiFi is available and then I do
urgently need to connect to my servers, the Bluetooth-cellphone-GPRS connection is
the way to go. Yea, you guessed it, this is for Information Technology tech support.

2. What kind of phone do you have?
I used to have a Nokia 6230, then a Nokia 6230i and currently I do have a Nokia E65
which I love and hate at the same time. I hate it specially because of the WPA-PSK bug
it has. I have discussed this on the Nokia forums extensively. I love it since its a nice cool
phone.

3. Was it easy to get working?
A breeze with all, the N770 (when I had that), and also with the N800...
hope the same will be true when I do get the N810.

4. Who is your service provider?
TELCEL in Mexico.

5. How affordable is your data plan?
Not affordable at all: it is very expensive.
Rates for: CSD / HSCSD For: monthly billing plans only (not prepaid)
Telcel GSM plan USD $0.11 por minuto Billed monthly
Rates in USD for GPRS:
Pack Addtl$/mth IncludedKB $/addtlKb
1MB 4.9 1,024 0.11
3MB 9.9 3,072 0.1
5 MB $14.9 5,120 0.09
10 MB $19.9 10,240 0.08
15 MB $24.9 15,360 0.07
20 MB $27.9 20,480 0.06
30 MB $29.9 30,720 0.05
50 MB $47.9 51,200 0.04
1 GB $59.9 1,024K 0.03
Nolimit $69.9 Unlimited NA

6. What else should users know about that phone/provider/plan?
There are other companies options in Mexico, such as BAM which is
an unlimited time plan, but bandwidth varies a lot...from 0.xxx to
256Kbps according to my experience and measurements,
If you are a power user of cell phone Internet connectivity, get the
unlimited plans, which are about about USD$80.00/month
ADDITIONAL to your voice plan.

1. Yes.
2. Nokia 6120 Classic.
3. Yes very simple.
4. Wind.
5. 9euros/month for 1,5gb of data or 20e/m for 8gb data.
6. Download speed is 100Kb/s (average) but teorically it can reach 3.6mbit/s.