Has anyone had any experience with setting this up, ive only had a play around with GPRS once or twice on my mobile itself but none with bluetooth or IR or the like.

Basically a friend is taking a caravan around australia and wants to be able to check her emails on her laptop onroad through GPRS on her mobile.

Im just taking a guess here but I assume you need a dongle something like this: http://anyware.anyware.com.au/INETUCRIDGUEST_1142764769_21878_4975/catalogue/anyware/cache/_v3cmditem.eexe?id=3198 and
a bluetooth compatible phone, and setup dialup networking or something to connect it to the phone?

Whats the difference with classes in these dongles and anything else I need to know?

it'll depend on the phone, but a usb cable might be a better option. like the nokia dku cables, which you can pick up for dick all really.

i haven't tried blue tooth, but i've had no problems with dku cables. IR i wouldn't even bother with.

why not just check the email son the actual phone. that's what i did for a whole week last week while i was out of the office. worked like a charm.

it'll depend on the phone, but a usb cable might be a better option

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hahah yeah what now?

wtf u talkin bout ya halfcast maxe? damn I musta hurt your feelings good if your tryin that hard to try get something over me.

Yeah I know IR was out of it as it needs a direct link basically and is a pain in the ass but was just thinking of bluetooth so she didnt have to connect her phone up everytime, that and a dongle is cheap as s*** anyway. Probably cheaper then a data cable.

Anyway once I decided what to communicate em with how do you go about setting up a "internet connection" so it goes through the phone, or does it not work like that? im sure I could figure it out eventually but if someones done it before and knew the quickest way it would help :)

infi; cause shes a poser I guess and the cool thing to do is use your laptop.

if its a nokia its all handled by the nokia suite software. its treated by windows just like any other modem as far as i can tell.

dunno about other brands.

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nF 2 - Bj 0

maxe: -2

also tell her to look up the costs of connecting to the gprs thing in her contract, sometimes it can be mighty exxy

why not just go to a internet cafe, even out in the back of hicksville they'd have net 'somewhere' these days...

the costs associated with using your mobile for email would make baby jesus cry i'd imagine

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you have australia confused with america, they may have the internets in hicksville, but here in good old aus, telstra can't even make their landline in the outback work properly. I wouldn't be counting on some out of the way place having internets

it doesn't matter where you are in australia, you can find a net cafe every 5 days. i promise you that. my parents go with their 4x drive where there aren't roads and every 5 days i get an email. The back of the back of Burk is wired. you may pay $1 a minute but fear not you'll be able to read your spam.

Also, i'd go the read-email-on-phone rather than use-phone-as-mobile, since phone browsing will be much more efficient on the downloads, which on gprs is very expensive. i.e. going to normal gmail.com is going to cost quite a few more KBs than visiting m.gmail.com directly on your phone.

i'd imagine pulling down emails via pop3 or imap would be more efficient than both, plus you don't have a tiny screen to look at.

If she's going away for ages, tell her to chat with her service provider and sign up for a discount data-pricing pack based on either usage or hours. Much cheaper than standard GPRS rates. Also, if she's going to be in remote locations, CDMA-1x and EV-DO are going to be more prevalent than GSM with GPRS.

Whats reasonable or makes more sense isnt the point here. Ive suggested all the other options but this is what she wants to be able to do, expensive or not.

Like nF said, just using pop3 through GPRS would be more efficient then using some webbased email system like gmail. Either way she wants the option of both I guess, she can learn the hard way once shes gets a bill, but thats not my problem.

So anyone got any ideas on how to get something like outlook to connect to a pop server through GPRS? either with a bluetooth dongle or data cable.

maxe wtf u smokin man.. this is one thread we aint payin each other out on. keep on tryin hard though

Get a BT dongle with Widcomm drivers - not your cheap arse generic brand crap because they do not ship with the correct drivers. What you will get is a BT dongle being supported by MS drivers which are *CRAP*. It supports only BT input/output devices - keyboards & mice.

Using the Widcomm drivers opens up PM, Handsets, communications, etc.. what will happen is that the mobile phone will advertise one of its services as being a modem. The BT software will remap this modem to COMx (x of your choice). You then just setup standard dial up networking to use the modem on COMx for dialing up a connection.

You will potentially need an ISP to connect to as well as the DUN in XP doesn't support APNs from memory.

Nice tip, thanks ticcy.

i use it on my laptop with nokia pc suite and a blue tooth USB adapter

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8506/nokia9ld.jpg

its very simple - blue tooth adapater when plugged into USB automatically installs generic modem over bluetooth drivers (winxp)

A mate of mine has one of these dealies and reckons it works pretty well.

Thanks for the tips fellas, that should be enough to get it working.

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Get a Vodafone 3G MCC.

they are the shiznitz.

PCMCIA card that uses WCMDA/GPRS for phat 384kbit speeds.