David <barrettquick@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > > So my main question is will they work well as a 3g bluetooth modem with
> > > a mac? Has anyone actually done this?
> >
> > Yes - did it last Tuesday with an ancient ex-3 contract phone (Nokia
> > 7600) and my T-Mobile WebnWalk SIM.
> >
> > Signal strength wasn't great, but I was getting 380kb downstream speeds,
> > which is more than acceptable for the kind of work you'd do on mobile
> > data.
>
> If you get something like T Mobile's MDA 2 it has the higher-speed
> capabliity HSPDA (or similar letters to that) so you'll get about 1.2
> MB/s speeds where you have a good 3G signal.

Windows Mobile phones are a complete PITA to get working as modems on
OSX. I tried and gave up.

Is there a cheap, bluetooth, PAYG, high-speed 3G phone out there?
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