[ale] [OT] - Motorola V551 Cell Phone

Nathan J. Underwood ale1 at cybertechcafe.net
Mon Apr 4 15:17:52 EDT 2005


so anyway, 2 penguins walked into a bar....

Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> I'm looking at switching [back] to Cingular for my cellular service. The 
> biggest reasons are coverage, bluetooth capability, and their edge 
> network.  I've currently got Nextel.  The novelty of the direct connect 
> is wearing off, and I miss the extensive coverage that I had with 
> Cingular.  I'm looking specifically at the Motorola V551.  My goal would 
> be to be able to use the phone with a bluetooh headset (so as long as I 
> was within 10' - 20' of the phone, I could receive calls), and use the 
> phone as a bluetooth modem for my laptops (1 dual boot windows / linux, 
> 1 iBook [which I'm using more and more]).  For the purpose of this 
> discussion, let's assume that I've got the Bluetooth working on the 
> computer end of this equasion with all of the involved OS's (WinXP Pro, 
> FC3, Mac OS X).  Has anyone got this setup and working, and care to 
> share their experience(s)?
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