Bluetooth/cellphone questions

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blackgemblackgem
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in macOS edited January 2014
Looking at the bluetooth info on www.apple.com/bluetooth how do you use bluetooth and a cellphone to connect to the internet. also, how can i hook up a non-bluetooth cell phone to a powerbook 12" 866

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    dnisbetdnisbet Posts: 201member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BlackGem

    Looking at the bluetooth info on www.apple.com/bluetooth how do you use bluetooth and a cellphone to connect to the internet. also, how can i hook up a non-bluetooth cell phone to a powerbook 12" 866



    This should probably be in the Genius Bar, but it's fairly simple to do. When you first pair the computer and phone OS X asks what services you want to be available, include use phone as modem and then the phone will appear in the Internet Connect menu. Then in System Preferences -> Network-> Bluetooth Modem Adaptor, input your ISP numbers etc.



    A non-bluetooth cell phone might be a little more tricky. Most phones that connect to computers without bluetooth do so over a serial connection. The trouble here is that bluetooth's syncing capabilities won't work.
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    blackgemblackgem Posts: 13member
    Do you know if Verizon has a bluetooth phone? From what I can find from there site is that they dont. I need to stop at the Verizon store.
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    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    Why do phone companies make phones? Do they not interoperate? And why is there no $59 BT phone.
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    evoevo Posts: 198member
    I use a Motorola C332 phone with my eMac over a USB cable that came with my digital camera. It really works great. I use iSync with it no problem, and I can connect to the internet too if need (albeit very slowly).
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    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BlackGem

    Do you know if Verizon has a bluetooth phone? From what I can find from there site is that they dont. I need to stop at the Verizon store.



    As far as I know, there's no bluetooth CDMA phone out yet. I may be wrong. So, that means no, Verizon does not offer a BT phone.
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  • Reply 6 of 7
    balibalibabalibaliba Posts: 17member
    CDMA standard (usa/japan/korea) is dieing.



    3G is going to crush the last remnants of the old CDMA mammoths by adapting the necessary to 3G (post-GSM) standard.



    If you have a choice, dump the CDMA. There is no future.



    GSM is far better and 3G is going to be even better.



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    EDIT: i just checked the first message... I'm not really contributing anything.



    In www.apple.com/support -> discussions -> isync there is lots of good advice how to get BT phone to work with isync/mac.

    LINK



    In www.taniwha.org.uk you can get good instructions for modem-use of BT phones on macs as well as drivers for several phones and several models.

    LINK
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  • Reply 7 of 7
    mithrasmithras Posts: 165member
    Well, I have a GSM bluetooth phone:





    and while I love the phone, and agree the technology is nice...

    (and get ~40kbps unlimited Internet access on T-Mobile's network)



    ...in the United States the GSM coverage doesn't hold a candle to the CDMA coverage. There is much better coverage as soon as you are out of the city or off the highway. It's sad but true.



    By the way, I was traveling in Australia earlier in the year, and the same is true there -- the nice phones are GSM, but if you're in remote areas, you need to rely on CDMA.



    I don't know whether the reasons are technical or economic (CDMA networks have been built for longer in more places), but it's definitely true, at least for now.
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