Ray Davison wrote:
> John Stewart wrote:
> 
>>Ray Davison wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Does anyone know what is involved in connecting a cell phone to a PC? 
>>> It is an Ericsson T28Z.  I have a data cable with a serial connector.
>>>
>>>The manual just says"To send fax and data calls you need to connect 
>>>your phone to a computer, for example by means of an infrared modem 
>>>and then start the appropriate software program."  I have not been 
>>>able to get any help from the Sony-Ericsson site.
>>>
>>>TY
>>>Ray
>>
>>
>>Looks like some details on the software here:
>>
>>http://www.westsidecellular.com/store/datapilot.html
>>
> 
> It says it will only dial a selected, paid ISP.  I need a wireless 
> modem that is just as general as a land line modem.
> 
> Ray

I don't know a lot about your particular phone, but I do know a bit 
about wide-area networking over wireless - albeit more on the Windows 
side of things.

Typically when you purchase a wireless service you are paying an ISP - 
which most times is your carrier - for the privilege of using their 
network to send data. CDPD, CDMA, UMTS, GPRS, etc., all work this way. 
You pay the carrier for a data plan and that allows you to move data 
over their network.

Assuming that your carrier offers some service like this, I would 
suspect you should talk to them about using your phone for data traffic.
I'm also a little confused - "just as general as a land line modem" is 
hard for me to understand, since a land line modem would still require 
something to connect to in order to be able to send traffic. You can 
change ISPs on a land line modem, of course, but you can also (at least 
some of the time, depending on the technology of the handset) change 
wireless carriers...

John


 
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