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Phone as 3G modem.
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| I'm getting a TomTom700, and thus need a bluetooth phone.
I'm also thinking of ditching both my vodafone card, and my three.co.uk
phone into some kind of combined phone that my laptop can talk to and
dial up and get threeG surfing (at an all inclusive phone, text, 3g
Internet traffic package.)
I'm completely fed up with three.co.uk spamming me, because I have no
wish whatsoever, to surf from the phone, make video calls, or watch
football clips or any other wanky clip about big brother that some
pointless female in the three.co.uk marketing department thinks might
make her company a fast buck, and enjoys gossipping about under the
pretence that she's "multitasking."
Three.co.uk want to make fast bucks, but aren't remotely interested in
providing anything useful, like phone based modems.
Are there any service providers that provide a 3G service tariff that
allows me to use the phone 90% of the time, and occasionally allows me
to use my laptop to check my Emails, or surf for hard core porn <oops I
meant spend hours empathising on female centric gossip column Blogs
that leather skinned Anna Ford deems is OK for me to read> when I'm out
of shagging distance of my wife?
Regards,
Ian
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| drawnai@hotmail.com declared for all the world to hear...
> Are there any service providers that provide a 3G service tariff that
> allows me to use the phone 90% of the time, and occasionally allows me
> to use my laptop to check my Emails
Yes, any of the networks except 3! General consensus is that it's
between Vodafone and Orange for best 3G services.
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Regards
Jon
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| Vodafone don't do it. They told me today that they don't sell a phone
that will act as a modem on behalf of a bluetoothed computer.
(Or at least they didn't say that, they might have said there was no
tariff.)
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| Jeremy Pope 2005-08-25, 2:48 am |
| "Ian" <drawnai@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1124922065.821669.252670@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Vodafone don't do it. They told me today that they don't sell a phone
> that will act as a modem on behalf of a bluetoothed computer.
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> (Or at least they didn't say that, they might have said there was no
> tariff.)
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I have a Vodafone 6630 - about 9 months old now - which I regularly use on
dear old Virgin Trains up to Manchester with my Dell D600 to get onto the
internet via Bluetooth and 3G. I'm on their 3G 1000 minute package and its
sooooooooo quick - compared with GSM/GPRS. I even get into the company VPN
to do all my Outlook mail on the way up and back.
I like Vodafone, but sometimes they're a bit Dixonesque in their ability to
understand the products that they have and how to get the best from them.
Jeremy Pope.
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| "Ian" <drawnai@hotmail.com> wrote in news:1124922065.821669.252670
@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:
> Vodafone don't do it. They told me today that they don't sell a phone
> that will act as a modem on behalf of a bluetoothed computer.
My Nokia 6680 on Vodafone works as a modem
> (Or at least they didn't say that, they might have said there was no
> tariff.)
You just get charged the standard data tariff.
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Phil
http://www.philipchung.co.uk/
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| drawnai@hotmail.com declared for all the world to hear...
> Vodafone don't do it. They told me today that they don't sell a phone
> that will act as a modem on behalf of a bluetoothed computer.
I think you will find that that is bollocks.
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Regards
Jon
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| Thanks. I suspect you're right. They haven't got a clue what they're
talking about.
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| hairydog@despammed.com 2005-08-29, 11:48 pm |
| On 24 Aug 2005 15:21:05 -0700, "Ian" <drawnai@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Vodafone don't do it. They told me today that they don't sell a phone
>that will act as a modem on behalf of a bluetoothed computer.
Vodafone are lying to you.
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Iain
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Browse now while stocks last!
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| David Paul Morgan 2005-08-30, 5:48 pm |
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"Ian" <drawnai@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1124883532.774222.292730@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> I'm getting a TomTom700, and thus need a bluetooth phone.
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> I'm also thinking of ditching both my vodafone card, and my three.co.uk
> phone into some kind of combined phone that my laptop can talk to and
> dial up and get threeG surfing (at an all inclusive phone, text, 3g
> Internet traffic package.)
>
just come back from Manchester and was very pleased with the 'surfing' via
my SE-V800 and the Vodafone Connect utility on my laptop. pretty much any of
the 3g SE 'phones would do the job via bluetooth or datacable (was supplied
in the box). just check out the data tarriffs. I had a good all-inclusive
monthly off dial-a-phone (350 mins, 100txts for £30.
The Cisco vpn client also works over the 3G network connection, so
connecting to the office also seems to be possible.
trying to check my data bill for the weekend, but the vodafone billing
system is off-air.
cheers, DavyPaul
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| Stuart Hutchinson 2005-08-30, 5:49 pm |
| Jon <spam@jonparker.plus.com> wrote:
> drawnai@hotmail.com declared for all the world to hear...
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> Yes, any of the networks except 3! General consensus is that it's
> between Vodafone and Orange for best 3G services.
I get 50Mb a month from Orange on my 3G contract. I use a SonyEricsson
Z1010 with an Apple Powerbook. The speeds can approach broadband level.
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