By Russ, on January 1st, 2008
Instead of connecting your phone to your laptop, you can more easily connect a dongle. These little devices are amazing bits of technology when you consider that simply plugging them in and waiting a few minutes gets you connected to mobile broadband far quicker and easier than either configuring your phone or indeed connecting your PC, router and ADSL modem to a wired connection.
In my experience the maximum speed you can expect to connect to the internet using a dongle is about 2Mb/sec if you happen to be in a 3G area. While cruising along the coast or sitting in
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By Russ, on January 1st, 2008
A number of people have written asking about errors connecting their brand new Nokia smartphones to their University WLAN.
If your University uses Eduroam then it will use a type of EAP (Extended access protocol) called EAP-TTLS PAP. other types of EAP are EAP-PEAP and EAP-MSCHAPv2 .
This is a problem with Symbian S60 phones including Nokia – they dont support the EAP-TTLS PAP protocol.
Another reason that I decided to get a Windows Mobile 6 Pro phone.
There is even a petition to try and force Nokia to support this protocol..
http://www.petitiononline.com/NokiaPAP/
By Russ, on January 1st, 2008
Test Rig:
Laptop: Acer 5022WLMi + Windows Vista Ultimate
Phone: Samsung i780 + Windows Mobile6 Pro
1. DONGLE
Start with checking that your Bluetooth connection is the latest version.
This is critical if you are running Windows Vista on your laptop, but not as important if you are running Windows XP. If you are running Windows XP then click here for advice on how to deal with XP as opposed to Vista.
The Acer laptop I use does not have built in Bluetooth, and I am running Windows Vista, so the first step was to buy a Bluetooth dongle. The one I selected was the Anycom
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By Russ, on January 1st, 2008
If you havn’t bought a phone yet then I highly recommend that you buy a phone using Windows Mobile6 Professional – sorry for those that have already got a phone with a previous version
My minimum spec list for a good smart phone is:
1. Bluetooth
2. 3G
3. WM6 Professional (version 6 or later )
4. WiFi
5. GPS
6. Touchscreen (for experimenting with maps and GPS!)
For a list of phones that have this spec click here. (0ver 50 models in the UK at the present time…)
Strictly speaking :
Windows Mobile for Pocket PC is now Windows Mobile 6 Classic
Windows Mobile for
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