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Originally Posted by cdsdonham
But I don't need the support of the service provider.
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Unfortunately, yes you do (this question has come up before), because you'll essentially be dialing through your mobile phone connection and using the cell network.
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Originally Posted by cdsdonham
But I thought that the IPAQ could act as a modem for a laptop via a USB connection. Unless it is transmitting the audio over the USB (which is possible, I guess), it would mean that there is a modem in the IPAQ.
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Yes, it does have one.
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Originally Posted by cdsdonham
Finally, I thought I had heard about such a driver for other phones. I thought it was called a "blue-tooth dial-up-networking" (BT-DUN) driver. Though I'm not sure about this...
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That's only for a bluetooth wireless connection between say your laptop and your phone. Again the same restrictions apply - since you're going through your mobile phone network, you still need to have a data account with your service provider.