http://www.osnews.com/story/12247/HowTo_Motorola_Linux_Smartphones_Mac_OS_X_and_Cingular_GPRS Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:17:51 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?44782 http://osnews.com/thread?44782 I wanted to buy an A780 but I was conflicted because of two things

1. Greek Compatibility (Greek contacts in addressbook, calendar, webpages, email)

2. iSync with the mac


Could you check these two things out ? what has your experience been ? Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mini-me) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?44788 http://osnews.com/thread?44788 1. There is no greek support in the Motorola Linux smartphones (at least the unlocked ones that one could find in the bazaar . There is only Chinese and English support. These smartphone's market is primarily for China and Singapore in fact, not even USA.

2. No, the full range of iSync does not work, as I already mentioned in the article. But Address Book syncing and modem-functionality does.

>what has your experience been ?

Did you not read my review of the E680i the other day? (the A780 and E680i software side is almost identical). I link it above! Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?44807 http://osnews.com/thread?44807 The article starts off poorly and you don't really know what it is about till the last sentence of the 1st paragraph. Ok, a phone geek can make an educated guess and probably be right but c'mon.

Please this is not a troll. I am actually a fan of Eugenia's articles. Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?44810 http://osnews.com/thread?44810 Very well, I exchanged the order of the two sentences. Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?44814 http://osnews.com/thread?44814 You know you are awesome right. Reads beautifully now. Thanks. Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?44828 http://osnews.com/thread?44828 The last 5 days have been a haze :p Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mini-me) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?44906 http://osnews.com/thread?44906 I dont have any special service, just plain Sprint Vision. The dialup networking and bluetooth on it works great with my 12" powerbook. Way faster than my dialup, way slower than my cable. Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?44910 http://osnews.com/thread?44910 Nice subject.Can we have a bluesnarfing article next? :-) Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?44922 http://osnews.com/thread?44922 Any way to browse with your mobile using your Mac's Internet connection through Bluetooth?

The Sharing system preferences seem to have a "share internet connection through Bluetooth, but I cannot sort out how to use it with my N-Gage, or if it is supposed to do that at all… Fri, 14 Oct 2005 07:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elmimmo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?44927 http://osnews.com/thread?44927 Your question is a very valid one. There are a lot of PDA users who want to get bluetooth internet connection via their Mac, but Apple does NOT provide this feature. Apple provides the ability to share a bluetooth connection to another network interface (e.g. WiFi), but not from another network interface *to* Bluetooth device. So, don't waste any time trying to make this work. This is why I even wrote this a while back: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10923

So, no, you can't share a network connection to Bluetooth device with Tiger. You could do it with Panther with some command line work, but it seems that no one has figured it out for Tiger yet.

But even if this was supported, the Linux motorola phones don't support that. They only support accepting a network connection either via Edge, GPRS or CSD. No Bluetooth or WiFi, even if they had the hardware in place. They don't support it in the software level. Fri, 14 Oct 2005 07:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?44937 http://osnews.com/thread?44937 Thanks for the reply.

Can you expand then, please, what is Bluetooth supposed to do in the Sharing system preferences? I see that you already mentioned that one could "share a bluetooth connection to another network interface (e.g. WiFi), but not from another network interface *to* Bluetooth device". But I still cannot make out what that means exactly, or what this literal (transl. from Spanish) setting means: "Share connection from Bluetooth with computers that use Ethernet/Firewire/Airport".

What would that accomplish? What would you use that with, for instance? (the Help System is quite lacking on that) Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elmimmo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?44938 http://osnews.com/thread?44938 It should be possible although it'll be a bit of hardwork.

Once you have some sort of ethernet forwarding over BT from the freeBSD box (Bluetooth PAN Protocol implementation as an example). You'll need a client side bluetooth application running on the Linux phone, this would have to route the ethernet packets via the phone's built in subsystem.

I'm not huge on the linux phones, would you need to recompile the kernel to do this ? Surely there could be some way to do it without the re-compliation ? Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?44960 http://osnews.com/thread?44960 I see that you already mentioned that one could "share a bluetooth connection to another network interface (e.g. WiFi), but not from another network interface *to* Bluetooth device". But I still cannot make out what that means exactly

I believe she means that, if you had a connection established over bluetooth (like the one described in the article, using a cellphone as a modem), you could then allow other computers on your local network to use that connection through NAT, wireless, or some other connection sharing scheme. But, if you already have a connection setup on the Mac (e.g., cable/dsl) and you want to allow other computers/devices to access that connection via bluetooth, it won't work. Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (StephenBeDoper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?44964 http://osnews.com/thread?44964 but what about connecting your Linux Smartphone... to Linux?! Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?45044 http://osnews.com/thread?45044 I am currently connected from my Mac powerbook G4 via bluetooth to my Nokia 6680 which then connects via 3G to the internet. It works absolutely perfectly without any hassles. Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?45064 http://osnews.com/thread?45064 anyone? Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?46115 http://osnews.com/thread?46115 There is a community of linux hackers working on extending the functionality of these Motorola linux phones (E680/E680I/A780) at :

http://www.motorolafans.com/

Being based on QT and Linux, quite a few things have been hacked into the phone:

1) OPIE running alongside Motorola's phone application
2) BlueZ with PAND support
3) Adding unofficial localizations to the phone
4) Ability to act as a NAT gateway to Windows/Linux machines

Meanwhile work is underway on:

1) Bluetooth HID support
2) USB Host support (it currently operates only as a client)

I'm sure I've missed out quite a few. But what I can say is, this phone is definitely a good buy, providing me with hours of hacking pleasure. Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments