smart phone / bluetooth /internet share?

8 Dec 2006 1:45 PM

Tim

I have a palm tx (no phone) that has wi-fi and I can get on my wireless lan
at home to do email and web. I am thinking of getting my wife a smart phone
for christmas. None of the phones seem to have the wi-fi or wireless G
they all want you to buy the cell phone data service that is expensive. The
all do seem to have bluetooth... so here's my question...

can I use bluetooth on a smart phone to share my existing internet account
at home without subscribing to a new cell phone internet data service?? do I
need a bluetooth router or adapter of some kind? (my laptop has bluetooth)

thanks in advance.

Tim

9 Dec 2006 5:32 AM

Pavel A.

If your phone's BT can work as LAN client (have so called PANU profile)
you can install a BT access point
(very few models available, can be expensive)
or use BT in the laptop with a proper driver, and you'll be ready to go.

--PA

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"Tim" <no@spam.thx> wrote in message news:%23toSg8sGHHA.1264@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I have a palm tx (no phone) that has wi-fi and I can get on my wireless lan at home to do email and web. I am thinking of
>getting my wife a smart phone for christmas. None of the phones seem to have the wi-fi or wireless G they all want you to buy
>the cell phone data service that is expensive. The all do seem to have bluetooth... so here's my question...
>
> can I use bluetooth on a smart phone to share my existing internet account at home without subscribing to a new cell phone
> internet data service?? do I need a bluetooth router or adapter of some kind? (my laptop has bluetooth)
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> Tim
>