HOLY SHITE!!! This Thanksgiving has been MOST AMAZING because I have just enabled Bluetooth tethering between my MacBook and my Nokia E71!!! This has been possible without the help of JoikuSpot and I am beyond excited at this point!!!
A few years ago when I owned the Nokia E70 fold out QWERTY I had experimented with the Bluetooth settings and got a tether connection to work for a brief moment, but it turned out to be a temporary fluke. Since then all attempts had become failures even with the help of the Nokia PC Suite via Boot Camp, so as a result I came to rely on the Internet Sharing app on Windows Mobile smartphones. After a while I never thought that any Nokia device would ever be capable of tethering in any way, but that was until I got my E71 and found out about JoikuSpot. This app basically turned my 3G enabled Nokia device into a wifi hotspot for my laptop, but the main drawback was that I could not get into secure websites that required a password. All this time I had put up with the limitation of of JoikuSpot and got tired of not being able to access secure websites such as online banking and my personal email, but I figured that Internet Sharing on my Treo 750 was a proper solution. With this being the case, I tolerated switching my SIM card between devices and that eventually started to get old very fast.
Upon reading posts on Howardforums.com I was inspired to try out another tether link in my Bluetooth preferences on my new MacBook and hoped for the best. IT WORKED! I am currently writing this blog post on a MacBook that is connected to the Internet via the Bluetooth connection on my Nokia E71 that has been active for nearly an hour through incoming calls and messages!! It is a bit slower than wifi, but still tolerable all the same.
I am now thoroughly impressed with my E71 and it is officially a Swiss Army knife of all trades for my personal smartphone usage!! I am almost confident enough to declare that I don't even need my Treo 750 anymore for backup purposes, but I won't be too hasty in making such a decision.
I had better disconnect the E71 from my unlimited data plan before I forget and think that I am on wifi!
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TRENT
Sent from my 13" Aluminum MacBook
2 comments:
hiya,
any hints on how you actually managed to get this to work? I've been trying hopelessly until now with my macbook 13" (new one) and e71 (w Vodafone sim).
tnx!
Richard
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