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Sony Ericsson T610 phone
Sony Ericsson T610 phone
WARNING! I do NOT recommend this phone. (Try the Motorola v330 instead.) Although it mostly works as a GPRS modem over Bluetooth, it has buggy software and unreliable hardware. I am currently on my third SE T610 phone. (T-mobile has been very good about their warranty service of this phone, but I dread the day my warranty runs out.)
Number one died of a software problem a week after I got it, and number two stopped charging four months later due to a hardware issue. All three phones have required daily power-cycles to maintain semi-reliable operation and were/are plagued with bugs in the Bluetooth stack and email client which would unexpectedly reboot the phone.
If you are shopping for a phone to use as a bluetooth modem, don't get this one.
That said, the phone has a very nice form factor, works very well as a standard phone, and usually works well enough as a GPRS modem via Bluetooth for my Palm T and IBM X31 laptop.
How to pair this phone with Mandrake 10.1:
- Edit your /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf file to replace the standard pin_helper program with the following: "pin_helper /sbin/pinhelper". Edit the /sbin/pinhelper to contain the following line: echo "PIN:1234".
- DO NOT attempt to pair the phone with your laptop (it won't work). Instead, make your laptop initiate the connection (via an RFcomm PPP connection for example) and enter the pin (1234) on your phone.
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