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Weblog:   How to Lose Treo 650 Customers, by Sprint
Subject:   How to work around it...
Date:   2004-10-25 09:03:10
From:   ergie
Here is a good work around.


Get this http://web.palmone.com/products/Product.jhtml?id=410001&cat=310004 very nice cable about $24 and it will charge your phone from USB port power. Then get this http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/index.php it's a proxy software for the treo. ~$50 later you have a solution that lets you connect your laptop via the treo to the internet. Great for the roadwarriors, I use it all the time and it's fast. I used the Sprint card too and I say this is faster then the card.
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  • How to work around it...
    2005-05-30 20:29:21  alexseg [Reply | View]

    please let me know how to connect to inter net using Treo 650. Thanks
  • Re: How to work around it...
    2004-12-16 05:40:22  sorokahdeen@yahoo.com [Reply | View]

    There have been a number of interesting information trends here. Some of them are worth answering.

    As far as the defenders of Sprint's legal situation are concerned, forget it. Even when you use a phone tethered by a third-party cable, Sprint does everything in its power to detect your low-speed data stream going through the phone and to cut it off as quickly as possible.

    Why? For exactly the reason the initial poster mentions: Sprint offers real, unlimited internet service only to people who use Sprint's PC-cards on a separate, and very expenive contract. If it were not for this, your phone would make a perfect low-speed modem.

    I know because I don't own a treo, I own a Sanyo 4900, with the requisite software and cable and I've long since stopped using both. Living in a major city, I find wifi-connections in many of the places I go regularly.

    With Sprint punishing me for using my phone as a modem instead of their card and separate service (i.e., handing them hundreds once in order to hands them hundreds every quarter) I can find no reason to be sympathetic toward their business model.
  • How to work around it...
    2004-10-25 09:42:15  fofer [Reply | View]

    Mark mentions PDANet in his article. And it won't work on Mac. That's why I use WirelessModem:
    http://www.notifymail.com/palm/wmodem/

    ...along with a short USB/power cable, it allows me to get on the internet off my PowerBook using my Treo 600 as a modem. Sure, wireless bluetooth would be better, but in the meantime I am pretty darn happy with the solution. I am happy with Sprint's unlimited data plan, and obviously customers took advantage of it, and this is what Sprint has to do in order to curb that abuse. I'd rather see bluetooth data tethering removed than see their prices rise or unlimited plan go away.

    Hopefully an enterprising developer will release a patch to bring it back.
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