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> My steam age Samsung just died and I wanted to buy a phone I can use as a
> modem
>
> No phones seem to be advertised to do this: Dial my ISP and act as an
> interface between my computer and the internet (as opposed to using the
> TMobile proprietary service)
>
> Are there any descriptions anywhere of phones usable with TMobile which
> can do this? The company themselves want you to sign up to their
> extortionate service and use their email program alone which I cant do
> anyway (with about ten mail boxes to check)
>
> Someone told me to look for a phone with RRSS capability (which he said
> was limited to 19,200 baud at the moment) which I cant find details of
> anywhere either. Has anyone found out anything about this?
>

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> The are quite a few phones that will do this (at 9.6KB).
>
> Go to the Nokia web site and look at their GSM phones. The easiest thing to
> do is look at the phone using the compare feature of the web site. It will
> show whether or not the phone will work as a modem.
>
> Both the Motorola V188 and V330 will work as modems. However, I just
> returned the V330 that I had after one week of frustration with various
> firmware bugs and human factors design flaws. On the other hand, one plus
> that both of these phones have, is quad band GSM coverage, which no Nokia
> phone currently offers.
>
> Mike Schumann
>
> "news.rcn.com" <news.rnc.com> wrote in message
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> So Mike... are you going to share with us what were your specific reasons
> for returning the V330.... I have read about that the custom settings are
> gone after turning it off, but I haven't read any other "faults" up till
> your post.
>
> SFB
>
> Mike Schumann wrote:
>

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> Many thanks for your reply: I fogot to mention that I need a triband
> phone, which I presume I will be able to see on the comparison page. I
> will check the Nokia site.
>
> But in case there isn't one available in my area, is there any chart
> anywhere of which other manufacturer phones can be used as modems and
> which can't and are there any manufacturers which I should specifically
> avoid?
>
> I note that (for example) Blackberry's support mysteriously runs out a
> few days after you buy the phone. Is this indicative of something? Does
> it mean that they wont support their products unless you pay them to do so
> or does it simply mean that their phones are so complex that if they DID,
> their switchboards would be constantly jammed? Or does it mean that they
> are so badly designed that the maladies which you say curse the Motorola
> would mandate everyone who finds a badly designed feature would be
> constantly calling them to find out how to get the feature to work
> properly?
>

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>I suspect that the majority of tri-band phones will have built in modem
> support. But you should check for sure.

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>
> As far as I had been able to check, very few of them do which is why I was
> wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some kind of
> comparison chart: I tried the site and it didnt differentiate whether the
> function being offered was a modem or whether it only enabled you to use the
> phone with the T-Mobile service. So I called Nokia and they weren't sure
> either without a huge amount of digging and referring to level two tech
> support with me on line
>
> Ultimately I discovered that a lot of their models costing upwards of $400
> have modem use but I was trying to spend as LITTLE Money as possible rather
> than as much. I had heard it referred to as RSS or RRS or something and
> THEY refer to it as HSCSD (high Speed Circuit Switch Data) which gives rise
> to numerous other questions, such as whether this is something new or
> something which has been improved on recently so that you HAVE to buy a new
> model:
>
> Nothing about cellular phone modem use is in the slightest bit high speed,
> in fact I have heard that nothing moves at more than 19,200 KbPS. So is this
> there something new going on or can I just look for a manufacturer which
> charges less?

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>
>
> As far as I had been able to check, very few of them do which is why I was
> wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some kind of
> comparison chart: I tried the site and it didnt differentiate whether the
> function being offered was a modem or whether it only enabled you to use
> the phone with the T-Mobile service. So I called Nokia and they weren't
> sure either without a huge amount of digging and referring to level two
> tech support with me on line
>
> Ultimately I discovered that a lot of their models costing upwards of $400
> have modem use but I was trying to spend as LITTLE Money as possible
> rather than as much. I had heard it referred to as RSS or RRS or
> something and THEY refer to it as HSCSD (high Speed Circuit Switch Data)
> which gives rise to numerous other questions, such as whether this is
> something new or something which has been improved on recently so that you
> HAVE to buy a new model:
>
> Nothing about cellular phone modem use is in the slightest bit high speed,
> in fact I have heard that nothing moves at more than 19,200 KbPS. So is
> this there something new going on or can I just look for a manufacturer
> which charges less?
>

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> My steam age Samsung just died and I wanted to buy a phone I can use as a
> modem
>
> No phones seem to be advertised to do this: Dial my ISP and act as an
> interface between my computer and the internet (as opposed to using the
> TMobile proprietary service)
>
> Are there any descriptions anywhere of phones usable with TMobile which
> can do this? The company themselves want you to sign up to their
> extortionate service and use their email program alone which I cant do
> anyway (with about ten mail boxes to check)
>
> Someone told me to look for a phone with RRSS capability (which he said
> was limited to 19,200 baud at the moment) which I cant find details of
> anywhere either. Has anyone found out anything about this?
>

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> Which tri-band phone have you discovered that does NOT have modem support?
>

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> If you have data plan from T-mo, this is the number to dial
> *99***2#

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>
>
> Not sure what this means: All I wanted to do was to
> connect the phone to the computer and
> have the phone dial my ISP and
> exchange handshakes
> so that the computer can access the internet and
> I can get my email on my dozen or so mail boxes
> without paying for the tmobile service?.
>
> Where does *99***2# come in?
>

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> All of the Blackberrys, a few Sony-Ericssons, most Motorolas, some
> Samsungs: It's all very confusing
>
>
>
>

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>
>
> Not sure what this means: All I wanted to do was to
> connect the phone to the computer and
> have the phone dial my ISP and
> exchange handshakes
> so that the computer can access the internet and
> I can get my email on my dozen or so mail boxes
> without paying for the tmobile service?.
>
> Where does *99***2# come in?

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> Not sure what this means: All I wanted to do was to
> connect the phone to the computer and
> have the phone dial my ISP and
> exchange handshakes
> so that the computer can access the internet and
> I can get my email on my dozen or so mail boxes
> without paying for the tmobile service?.
>
> Where does *99***2# come in?

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> news.rcn.com wrote:
>
> Instead of dialing in to your ISP, you dial *99***2#.
> That gets you on the Internet with T-Mobile as your ISP.
> Once your connected to the Internet, you can download your
> own ISP mail accounts.
>
> --
> John Richards
>
>
>

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>
>
>As far as I had been able to check, very few of them do which is why I was
>wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some kind of
>comparison chart: I tried the site and it didnt differentiate whether the
>function being offered was a modem or whether it only enabled you to use the
>phone with the T-Mobile service. So I called Nokia and they weren't sure
>either without a huge amount of digging and referring to level two tech
>support with me on line
>
>Ultimately I discovered that a lot of their models costing upwards of $400
>have modem use but I was trying to spend as LITTLE Money as possible rather
>than as much. I had heard it referred to as RSS or RRS or something and
>THEY refer to it as HSCSD (high Speed Circuit Switch Data) which gives rise
>to numerous other questions, such as whether this is something new or
>something which has been improved on recently so that you HAVE to buy a new
>model:
>
>Nothing about cellular phone modem use is in the slightest bit high speed,
>in fact I have heard that nothing moves at more than 19,200 KbPS. So is this
>there something new going on or can I just look for a manufacturer which
>charges less?
>
>

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> the Samsung E105 will do it, BUT
> You need to pay T-Mo $10 per month for the digital to analog
> conversion, and this is for ANY phone on their network.
> So, you really are better off with the $19.95 T-Mobile Internet, which
> I find very reliable, and I am on line with it at least 5-6 hours per
> day!
>
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:06:06 -0400, "news.rcn.com" <news.rnc.com>
> wrote:
>
>