Does anyone now if this phone can be used to bluetooth tether to a laptop? I'm currently used an old nokia on gprs but it is fairly slow. I would like to have a faster connection, was eyeing this phone but have heard conflicting reports of how well it tethers with 3g networks.
Josh, Yes. If you get the right one. When it first came out, it fully supported tethering. They later released an update to end that. You have to manually get an update, it doesn't happen automatically so if you get one of the later ones, yes. It will work as you need it to.
Worse case, you get one and it has the software updates. Not a huge deal. Use davinciteam.com with a sony ericsson data cable and flash it to the previous firmware. Then you have tethering back!
Check out http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=462 for more info on this phone and what other stuff you can do. (Like enable data icons, flash menus etc... all hackable for free if you have the data cable.)
On average, i get about 1000kbps down 325-350 kbps up on speed tests. And pings about 150-250 ms. Much better than edge or gprs. Once you try out 3g, you will totally get hooked!
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Does anyone now if this phone can be used to bluetooth tether to a laptop? I'm currently used an old nokia on gprs but it is fairly slow. I would like to have a faster connection, was eyeing this phone but have heard conflicting reports of how well it tethers with 3g networks.
Josh, Yes. If you get the right one. When it first came out, it fully supported tethering. They later released an update to end that. You have to manually get an update, it doesn't happen automatically so if you get one of the later ones, yes. It will work as you need it to.
Worse case, you get one and it has the software updates. Not a huge deal. Use davinciteam.com with a sony ericsson data cable and flash it to the previous firmware. Then you have tethering back!
Check out http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=462 for more info on this phone and what other stuff you can do. (Like enable data icons, flash menus etc... all hackable for free if you have the data cable.)
On average, i get about 1000kbps down 325-350 kbps up on speed tests. And pings about 150-250 ms. Much better than edge or gprs. Once you try out 3g, you will totally get hooked!