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at all since you can get applications like PDA Net that by pass the anti-tethering measures that are taken by any carrier. http://junefabrics.com/android/ I tether my Dell Streak 5 all the time using it and I have no issues.

Enter PDANet. This tool lets you tether whether it's "disabled" or not.

PdaNet is the same, no? (Other than the pay version of EasyTether is cheaper.)

"Note: Once trial expires, you can continue using PdaNet for free. The only difference is that free edition blocks secure web sites." -- http://www.junefabrics.com/android/

It's actually better to use third party (one time fee) apps to tether. Using the carrier's tethering is a monthly additional cost. Check June Fabrics PDA tech group: http://www.junefabrics.com/android/index.php

Tethering apps already exist (for windows OS): http://junefabrics.com/android/index.php New! Version 2.02 PR supports all new Android phones including Motorola Droid/Cliq, Samsung Galaxy/Moment and HTC Hero/Eris.

PdaNet already supports some Palm phones: http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/. And, I heard somewhere that they are planning on porting their app to the Pre.

Here's the link for a freeware tethering app for just about all mobile os's including android. You install it on your pc while your phone is attached and it automatically sets itself up. Then you run the app on your phone and pc and you're ready to go. I've been using it for a few days without trouble and it beats the living hell out of tetherbot.

http://www.junefabrics.com/android/index.php

Tethering has turned into a must have for me and it's baffling why the telcos aren't exploiting this market.

And you don't have to pay a monthly fee.
PDANet for iPhone

Not at the current access rates they won't. I've used WAP once, and after getting my bill, I was through. Many people I know had the same experience with it.

Sprint's got a pretty decent thing going: it's $10/month extra for unlimited wireless internet usage, and it doesn't eat into your minutes. I use it with my laptop + PDANet, which basically utilizes the treo as a wireless modem

Get a treo. It has a thumb keyboard and several ssh clients. Add in PDANet and its a wireless modem with a USB connection to your laptop. Its available on both CDMA/EVDO and GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks. The price varies wildly from ~$600 for an unlocked GSM model down to $99 for an Earthlink branded one (probably with some strings attached).

From: support@junefabrics.com
Subject: RE: Platform support
To:
cc: store@junefabrics.com
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:42:37 -0700

Chris,

Sorry that unfortunately we have no plan to support Linux system.

Thanks,
June Fabrics PDA Software Support
http://www.junefabrics.com/


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Platform support
> From:
> Date: Fri, June 17, 2005 6:43 pm
> To: support@junefabrics.com
>
> JuneFabrics,
> I am interested in using your product (for which I already purchased a
> Windows copy) under GNU/Linux.
> Are there any arrangements under which this might be possible.
> Thank you,
> Chris

It's faster than dialup but slower than broadband.

I have a treo 650 and sprint vision as well. Using a program called PDAnet you can use your treo to get internet access on your pc. Works very well. I can get around 20-25 kb/s download on good days. Definately worth it considering I believe its 15 bucks a month for vision added to any of sprint's phone plans.

Also, the Treo itself browses the web great and gets pop3 email and has chat programs..most of the time I dont even need the computer.

It is not that bad (usally a bit faster than dialup, but a pain in the ass ping time). It still is good for the convinience. The ping time is slow when using ssh or telnet.

If you have sprint, you can also connect your laptop to your treo using PDA Net.

There are ways around it. There is a product that allows it, PDANet. Also, there is a hack to allow bluetooth to use DUN at http://www.shadowmite.com/.

True, although how often do you replace a battery?

2. Sometimes the palm OS will crash and there will be a reset button on the touch screen but it's so locked up you can't hit it, and the phone's power button won't work either so you have to leave the screen open until the battery completely dies.

Unscrew the tip of your stylus and stick it in the hole in the back of the PDA marked reset. This will give you a soft reset. In order to get a hard reset hold down the power button by the antenna while doing this for about 20 seconds and then release it. A dialog box will appear which will allow you to clear all data on your PDA.

3. This phone's SMS doesn't work with Sprint's network so the keypad is only really useful for managing the phone book.

The SMS or lack thereof sucks on the Treo 300. If you want to use SMS you're pretty much consigned to buying Treo300SMS ($19.95).

4. Treo 300 doesn't have built in modem software like my old Kyocera 6035 so I can't hook it up to my laptop and dial up to anything. I might be able to use Sprint's vision software but I'm not sure if there are additional charges for that.

True. You have to buy PDANet ($34.00) which will let you use Sprint's vision service and download all the data you want to your laptop/desktop.

5. It doesn't use the standard audio jack for the headset. I thought my phone was broken until I discovered there was a special headset for it. I'm not sure what the difference is. It's still mono with a mic. I can't imagine what different wiring patterns there would be.

It's a smaller form factor and the wiring allows for a button connected to your headset which does things like allow you to hang up the phone. It does kinda suck they didn't use standard size adaptors but headsets aren't too expensive these days.

6. Battery life isn't great.

Yeah this is definitely true. Especially when your battery starts to wear out after a year or so. I got a little gadget which plugs in and allows you to charge the PDA with 4 rechargable AA batteries. It comes in handy when I start running low on power after a lot of LCD/radio use.

7. No bluetooth! (I don't think the Treo 600 has it either.)

True

8. I can't sync it up with Mozilla Sunbird! (yet) but this is no fault of Palm's I suppose.

Hopefully the Mozilla people will add this feature soon.

9. It seems like I have to go into sprint and get PRC updates more often than I did with other phones. This might be a sprint thing I'm not sure.

AFAIK there is one ROM update for the Treo 300 if that's what you're referring to but I heard mixed reviews for it so I didn't install it although I'm not sure if there is any data to back up the claims I read on the internet. I heard data throughput was marginally improved at the cost of more battery use and decided on that basis not to fix what wasn't broken.

10. It's not a very bring screen.

Yes the screen is hard to read in direct sunlight. It's nowhere near as bright as the 600.

I like my Treo 300, and it does everything it needs to do. $80 on ebay, and when I use PDANet, I pull 90-160 KiloBytes per second with a good connection. (2.7ms ping, though, so pages still take a while to load). Best of all, it doesn't use any minutes.

Hopefully, when the 650 comes out, the 600s will drop to an affordable price.

I used to be a Verizon customer and switched to Sprint when the Treo 600 came out. I was expecting a decline in service quality, and was quite surprised the actual service was about the same.

What I did get was far more bang for the buck. For around $110 US a month, I get 2000 peak minutes, unlimited nights and weekends which start at 7 p.m. (versus 9 for Verizon), unlimited picture and SMS messaging, unlimited data, including unlimited modem use (thanks PDANet!), and a host of other features.

Bottom line, I'm not sad I left Verizon.. At least with Sprint I know I won't be charged extra for something as simple as an SMS message or photo transmission.

I'm using a Treo 600 on Verizon. Yeah, as a .Net developer I hated giving up my iPaq.

palmVNC works great at 150kbs. Certainly not what you could call "fast" but combined with UltraVNC on the server side you can scale the resolution (again, server-side) and it's usable.
http://palmvnc2.free.fr/

VeriChat does AIM, Y!, MSN, and ICQ. Works great and by using SMS you appear always online. The phone vibrates (or plays a sound) when you get an IM, even if you aren't in VeriChat, or even if it's turned off.
http://pdaapps.com/verichat/index.html

An extra feature: PalmNet and a USB cable allow you to get a 150 kbps connection with your laptop anywhere in the US. Worked out great for me, I just moved and PacBell screwed up my DSL line. PalmNet is my only Intenet connection right now.
http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/

There is an MP3 player (pTunes) but I have an iPod so I don't use it. There is a built in web browser (Blazer) that is decent. I use it frequently. No email client - some carriers give you one, Verizon didn't. I bought Snapper Mail:
http://www.snappermail.com/palm/email/
There is a GPS add on too. I might try it out one of these days. It would be nice if it was built in, but it would probably make the Treo too big.

The battery sucks. I have a charger at work, at home, and in the car. Used extensivly (phone calls, VNC sessions, lots of web browsing, etc.) I can make it one day, just barely, using just the home charger. Used REALLY heavily I don't even make it one day, I have to charge it on the way home, or during the day.

The screen sucks too. Not the resolution, I can deal with that. But in direct daylight it's very hard to see.

The keyboard is brilliant. I'll never use another type form-factor PDA again. When HP comes out with an iPaq that has this type of keyboard (and a built in phone) then I'll switch back to PocketPC. And yes, I've seen the latest iPaq with the snap on keyboard, I don't think that's going to be good enough.

I would say go for it now, who knows when the phone carriers will have the 650. It took Verizon over a year to get the 600.

• Send/receive mail using POP3S/SMTP-TLS, via SnapperMail.
• SSH via Mocha Pocket Telnet.
• Play MP3s stored on my SD card, via pTunes.
• Use it as a wireless modem for my laptop, via PdaNet.
• Play various time-wasters from PopCap.

My favorite app is PDANet (separate application you can buy at junefabrics.com), which turns it into a cellular modem for your laptop via the hotsync cable. LOVE *that*!

PdaNet software was what made PCS Vision into something I can use. Just plug the Treo into hotsync cable and bingo, you have a mobile modem that's fast enough to be liveable. No bullsht with special wireless modem cards or any of that. Speed and latency is as described in the article, and this is actually my only connection at home, since I don't have a land line or broadband. It works damn fine on the road, too, no more Wayport charges for in-room net connection.

-fister

1. SSH w/MochaTelnet. I like it better than TopGunSSH. Demo is free and doesn't seem to expire.
2. PalmVNC Installed it last night and works pretty well.
3. SnapperMail (allows auto-polling every X minutes) Using it for a couple of months now and I like it very much (includes attachments, and allows installing Palm modules (.prc) via emailing to yourself as an attachment...as opposed to hot-synching to install new software). Cost is $34.95, and I think worth it.

The next software I want to try is PdaNet which will recognize the Treo 300 as an external USB modem to a normal computer. Using the unlimited monthly bandwidth usage of the SprintPCS plan, it will supposedly allow up to 144kbps surfing on my laptop. Cost is $34, with 15 day trial period.