I heard that you can use your cell phone to connect through the internet by syncing it through bluetooth. How do you do this? It would be cool if I can have unlimited wifi when I'm on the go with my MBP.
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How do you use a cell phone as wifi modem?
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I believe you have to pair your phone with your Mac via bluetooth and then click something like "Enable wireless modem" in Bluetooth File Exchange. Also, what phone have you got? If it's not 3G or EDGE I'm afraid you'll get pitifully slow net speeds.
Oh, Verizon. I've heard that Verizon really like to cripple their phones by disabling features such as bluetooth pairing and use as a wireless modem. If, by some chance, you get it working you won't get fast speeds as the Chocolate is only GSM methinks.
The (US) Chocolate is CDMA... it doesn't have GSM.
It has EVDO data, so it should be fairly fast if you can even get it to work.