Craig Froehle wrote: > On 2/25/07, Michael M. Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2) For a one time charge, if you get PDANet from >> http://www.junefabrics.com you won't have to pay >> the recurring monthly Sprint fee. > > Um, be careful. Last I read, Power Vision (Sprint marketingese for > EV-DO) terms of service explicitly forbids hooking your Power Vision > phone up to an external device (e.g., a PC) to share its cellular data > connection. While terms alone don't scare me -- I used PDANet happily > with my T-Mo 650 for a long time -- EV-DO gives Sprint 100% > transparency where the data packets are originating. The phone passes > along to Sprint the fact that the packets originated off-phone via > Bluetooth, USB, etc., and Sprint will be all too happy to charge you a > per-KB fee along with any other fee/fine they can think of. Maybe > things have changed -- I haven't looked into this in a few months -- > but do some research before you assume that a 700p + PDANet = free > EV-DO to your laptop. > - Craig >
I have used PDANet with my 700p on Sprint EVDO with my laptop quite a bit. Never gotten charged anything extra for doing so, and I do not pay the extra Sprint monthly fee. (I do pay the monthly $15 for Power Vision data service.) --- Michael
