Re: New phone that works with Cingular/AT&T?

Good morning, everyone!

Bless you, thank you for the high compliment. We are doing very well
using the smart phone Nokia E62 for tethering with my iMac when we
are in our motorhome. As we did with the old Motorola v551, we simply
have the media net plan and it does all that we needed to do.
Obviously it's not as fast as the 3G access, but it is very
serviceable for us. It is probably a bulkier phone than many people
want, and it does not have a camera, but that doesn't matter for my
husband or daughter. It complements my iPhone very well. We have two
of them and we have never had a problem with them, although I will
say it is very slow to boot up. The first one is probably two years
old or more now, the other one is about eight months old. Regardless,
they have worked very well for our needs. We are still using the Ross
Barkman scripts very successfully and it is how I send mail, since I
still have not figured out WiFi mail sending on my iPhone. Heck, AT&T
can't even tell me how to do it on EDGE.

Hope this helps... I know this phone was still available last fall,
but they may be discontinued by now. It looks like a very tough and
rugged phone, though, so it would be worth the investment. We bought
Nichole's online refurbished for only $30. A whole lot better than
what my husband paid at nearly $150 a year plus earlier after
discounts and rebates.

Hope that helps someone else...
Valerie

Speech recognition in use ... I type, it listens, sometimes we make
mistakes!

On Mar 13, 2008, at 7:41 AM, maccellphone%40yahoogroups.com">maccellphoneyahoogroups.com wrote:

> As of yet I have not found a suitable replacement for the old
> reliable Moto v551 that allows me to tether and get online with my
> MacBook.
>
>; Someone (Valerie Maples, I think, who is a GREAT resource for this
>; group) said something about a Nokia model but I haven't taken that
>; plunge.
>
> My iPhone is nice, but it won't tether, and there are a lot of things
> I wish it did better, or simply did. No spam filtering of email, no
> Flash or Windows Media Player support for Safari to listen to
> streaming audio from radio stations, poor phone reception. It's not
> an adequate substitute for being able to tether a full-featured
> computer for Internet access.

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I will say one thing about the Nokia S60 phones. They tether very
well, sync well and run well with macs. The only thing better than
tethering is Joiku Spot. This turns your Nokia S60 Symbian OS phone
into a mini hotspot. I can't imagine how many TOS you are violating by
using the software with a media net plan, but it was very cool on my
e61. Not blazing but works just as good as tethering. (and you can use
your iPhone or laptop or whatever on 802.11)

This really makes me want to go out and buy an e51 with 3g. I highly
doubt you'll ever see a Apple authorized version of this type software
for your iPhone.(not as long as AT&T has a contract with them)

http://www.joikuspot.com/

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AT&T Upstate NY
Apple iPhone
Nokia e61
Blackberry Pearl
U720 Sprint EVDO card

On Mar 13, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Valerie Maples wrote:

> Good morning, everyone!
>
> Bless you, thank you for the high compliment. We are doing very well
>; using the smart phone Nokia E62 for tethering with my iMac when we
> are in our motorhome. As we did with the old Motorola v551, we simply
> have the media net plan and it does all that we needed to do.
> Obviously it's not as fast as the 3G access, but it is very
>; serviceable for us. It is probably a bulkier phone than many people
> want, and it does not have a camera, but that doesn't matter for my
> husband or daughter. It complements my iPhone very well. We have two
> of them and we have never had a problem with them, although I will
>; say it is very slow to boot up. The first one is probably two years
> old or more now, the other one is about eight months old. Regardless,
> they have worked very well for our needs. We are still using the Ross
>; Barkman scripts very successfully and it is how I send mail, since I
> still have not figured out WiFi mail sending on my iPhone. Heck, AT&T
> can't even tell me how to do it on EDGE.
>
> Hope this helps... I know this phone was still available last fall,
> but they may be discontinued by now. It looks like a very tough and
> rugged phone, though, so it would be worth the investment. We bought
> Nichole's online refurbished for only $30. A whole lot better than
>; what my husband paid at nearly $150 a year plus earlier after
> discounts and rebates.
>
>; Hope that helps someone else...
> Valerie
>
> Speech recognition in use ... I type, it listens, sometimes we make
>; mistakes!
>
> On Mar 13, 2008, at 7:41 AM, maccellphone%40yahoogroups.com">maccellphoneyahoogroups.com wrote:
>
>> As of yet I have not found a suitable replacement for the old
>> reliable Moto v551 that allows me to tether and get online with my
>> MacBook.
>>
>> Someone (Valerie Maples, I think, who is a GREAT resource for this
>;> group) said something about a Nokia model but I haven't taken that
>;> plunge.
>>
>> My iPhone is nice, but it won't tether, and there are a lot of things
>> I wish it did better, or simply did. No spam filtering of email, no
>> Flash or Windows Media Player support for Safari to listen to
>> streaming audio from radio stations, poor phone reception. It's not
>> an adequate substitute for being able to tether a full-featured
>> computer for Internet access.

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