another reason my blackberry kicks ass
our comcast modem took a dive this afternoon, leaving us with a couple of open wifi networks that barely provide enough bandwidth to check email. luckily, my blackberry pearl can be a bluetooth tethered modem for my macbook pro, providing me with a slow but stable internet connection, surprisingly better than the wifi that I was on.
Until the iPhone can do this, I’m going to have a really hard time making it my primary phone. I still want one, though :-).
27. July 2007 at 10:33
Hey Alex, you can now use the iPhone EDGE connection as a proxy for any device - check it out: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/07/25/tether-your-iphone-to-get-online-with-edge/
27. July 2007 at 10:35
Ps. Forgot to mention - Im gonna try this later today - but agre - this is the reason I still carry my nokia N70 around in my bag with me (besides Flash Lite content) its so easy to use over bluetooth when I cant get wifi for my powerbook. Really hope this is something they plan on doing oficially in an update.
25. August 2007 at 08:07
Data plans are so expensive in Canada that it would be impossible to use a Blackberry like that for us.
Last time I checked, 2 megs of transfer was around $50 with Rogers (yes, 2 megabytes, 50 bucks!!!) Just imagine surfing YouTube for a couple of hours at that price… ouch!
I guess we’re still in the stone age…