Back when Palm first announced the Pre, they said that the phone was going to support tethering. Somewhere along the way, either Palm, or more likely Sprint, decided that was a bad idea and completely disable the option, not even letting you use Sprint’s Phone As Modem plan to connect your computer to the internet through the Pre. For the mobile warriors out there this was bad news, but deesugar on our forums has put the old Treo hash codes (a way of boiling down data about the phone for things like determining the cause of a crash) to the test and found that by entering ##DATA# he could access a whole slew of information about the phone and what could eventually lead to the Pre having tethering enabled - either by Palm and Sprint (following suit after the iPhone gets the capability with 3.0) or by enterprising third-party developers.
And just today tripple_sinner, also in our forums, reported getting Bluetooth dial-up networking to work, and was getting speeds of up to 1400 kbps. Oher users have managed to get their computers to connect to the Pre as if the phone is indeed a modem, but are running into issues when they actually attempt to transer data. We'll be sure to keep you posted on developments on this front - it looks like dial-up networking is right around the corner!
Thanks to ToolkiT in our forums the tip!
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NICE!!!
"it looks like dial-up networking is right around the corner!"
And so is a OTA update from palm to re-block it.
I hope they change this very soon, it is a big negative for me.
Given that the "unlimited" plans have a limit of 3GB of data, why does Sprint care whether you reach it by the phone alone, or phone and tethered device? You will still be forced to pay if you exceed 3GB of data.
Because:
A) Its 5 gigs and not 3
B) There is no cap on on the handset when using SE plans.
So, if I "upgrade" to the Pre, I can't sync my contacts/calender with my desktop, and I can't tether to my laptop. Yeah, sticking with the 755, thanks. So disappointing.
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