Toshiba e740 Expansion Pack

[reinks3988]

I am getting a new cell phone with verizon and their bluetooth option doesnt support anything other than a few headsets according to the sales rep. I want to find another way to connect my cell phone (Lg Vx7000) to my Toshiba e740. There are many cables for this process but none with my preferences. Therefore, I would first like to ask if anyone knows where I could find one of these. I have been looking for quite a while now and thought of another solution. I know that you can buy the expansion pack for the e740 and it says that enables use with usb devices. While I haven't found a cable that connects the cell phone the pda, I have found many usb cables connecting the cell phone to a computer (or the expansion pack). So my questions are...Will the cable enable me to use the phone as a modem to my e740? Would I need any drivers? Would it even work at all. Replies would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

[gregmills]

Hopefully someone with more knowledge on this subject will post if I am but I believe you would need drivers to make that work... which don't exist.

I have the expansion pack for my e750 and I use it for the video out or to connect to a USB drive. Since my cell phone has a mini USB jack I could theoretically use a standard USB cable and some kind of simple adapter to connect the two. But without some drivers I don't think there can be any meaningful information transfer between the two devices.

[ivanii]

I have expansion board, but it is not for connecting with all USB devicies - it is written that you can connect certified USB keyboards. For example, you can't connect USB flash memory.

I guess that there is no easy cure for you. YOu can use infrared port, or you need PDA with Windows mobile 2003, that should easily connect to phone with bluetooth.

[SteveHoward999]

You can get drivers to support USB flash memory, this has been discussed here a few times.

I usually connect to my phone via iR - works fine for me, but it is a pain to have to sit the two devices next to each other and not move ... especially on a trian or a plane.

[Menneisyys]

The USB cable-based solution will NOT work. Very few phones are able to work as a modem via USB (and not the plain serial) cable. This also requires a special driver on the host computer, which is certainly NOT ported to Pocket PC's. (See e.g. the Mpx200 vs. USB modem-threads over there at mpx200.org).

However, I seriously doubt there aren't any BT phone models you can buy locally that would support the Dial-up Networking BT profile. Maybe the sales rep doesn't know much about BT and this is why he said they don't have any.