BT and T68i

[ott13979]

I'm thinking about buying a BT phone (eg. T68i) and a BT PDA.... (I will be using ATT as my ISP)

1. Can I just get a regular ATT plan and surf the net on my PDA??? Or do I have to buy a special plan??

2. Should I do this or buy a smart phone?

3. Maybe I should go back to a Big Chief Tablet and snail mail

Eric Otte

[ott13979]

I'm thinking about buying a BT phone (eg. T68i) and a BT PDA.... (I will be using ATT as my ISP)

1. Can I just get a regular ATT plan and surf the net on my PDA??? Or do I have to buy a special plan??

2. Should I do this or buy a smart phone?

3. Maybe I should go back to a Big Chief Tablet and snail mail

Eric Otte

[umichboy]

You can use your normal calling plan minutes to surf if you like and that will require a separate ISP so that you can dial-in. The transfer rate will be no greater than 9.6 kbps.

You can purchase a separate data plan to use GPRS for internet access. The cost is greater, but AT&T will be your ISP and the maximum speed would be 144 kbps. You'll most likely get speeds around 35 kbps or 4k/sec. GPRS seems about as fast as a dial-up modem to me. Just dialing in with your calling plan minutes will be really quite slow; I had transfer rates that slow with Omnisky and my Palm V back in the day, and even though everything was black and white (as rendered by a proxy server) the speeds were still slow.

[Skitals]

Question... I too am about to get a t68i through AT&T. If I use a dialup ISP and connect through my 5655, this goes on my normal minutes, right? Well what about the unlimited night and weekend minutes? Does this mean as long as the call is local (local plan), I can surf as long as I want after 9pm without using my minutes?

Thanks

[foldedspace]

I was thinking of doing the exact thing....although I'm probably going to go with the Nokia 3650....but the T68is is sure tiny. Anyway, has anyone actually done this?


....and why hasn't anyone come up with Bluetooth stereo headphones yet?

[Abba Zabba]

I have ATT. I have the optional Max MB plan. And it works fine for me. I think it just depend on what you need to do with your PDA. :|

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by umichboy

You can use your normal calling plan minutes to surf if you like and that will require a separate ISP so that you can dial-in. The transfer rate will be no greater than 9.6 kbps.

Wait, wait -- I've heard that AT&T GSM doesn't support dial-up like T-Mobile does, and that you must use their GPRS plans. Do you currently use dialup with AT&T?

--janak

[umichboy]

I use T-mobile, so I do not know if AT&T also supports dial-up. I assumed they would, but I may be wrong.

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by umichboy

I use T-mobile, so I do not know if AT&T also supports dial-up. I assumed they would, but I may be wrong.

I'm almost certain they don't. A lot of people have complained about this on AT&T and related forums/newsgroups.

--janak

[spaceman]

I have AT&T with 8mb/month data plan for $20 additional to the voice plan. AT&T does not allow dialup using included minutes. You have to use the GPRS for wireless Internet. The service works very well on my ipaq 3870. Be sure to get Spb's GPRS Monitor to keep track of your data usage.

[Abba Zabba]

Originally Posted by Spaceman

Be sure to get Spb's GPRS Monitor to keep track of your data usage.

Yes, definately. But don't be to worried either about going over. AND BTW you can use your mMode service to check how much data you have used :wink: