My Dumbest Question Yet . . . . .

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Justin-tiffany

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Ok. I hope you're all sitting down. Put down any hot drinks or you'll scald yourself laughing.

In Agendus contacts (and many other apps) you can "dial" someone. Of course you then get a message saying "no workie," because it isn't set up. Ok. So far so good. I have learned not to keep screaming "Hello?! Hello?! Is the caller there?"

So I take it your T3 can't be a "phone." It can, however, CONNECT TO A PHONE.

I have a . . . (let me blow the dust off it and extract myself from the cave!) NOKIA 8260 digital cellphone. No web, AT&T carrier. What is the cable I would need to make the T3 DIAL the phone number on the phone (if that's how it works)? So the cable's connected, right -- and you dial on the T3 but talk in to the phone -- so you can have access to all your phone numbers on the Palm? If the 8260 takes "SMS," you can also prepare text messages on the T3 and then send them through the phone?

Damn . . . . the string on the paper cups broke again. Please forgive this almost childish question but we're not dealing with Teal or Brayder stuff here, and so I'm totally lost!! Is there any real advantage to having the cables all hooked up (plus perhaps a "junction box?") other than the physical memory limits of the phone? So you could sit in a Starbucks, make calls to contacts and never have to look anything up AND THEN dial? Is that it?

I know how the email thing works if you're equipped with that . . . I just wondered about regular PHONE dialling.

I will do a google for any "Palm T3/Nokia cellphone" stuff; I asked my AT&T guy a year ago and he said I would need Bluetooth and a Bluetooth phone. Ok, now my nose is bleeding . . . .
 
Having done that with nearly the same set up - (it was a Nokia 8800) it's not worth it.

BT yes but not with a cable.

Get a new phone buddy and be prepared to carry around a Palm Power Pack in order to keep your T3 supplied with little moving electrons.

Or go by a Treo.
 
As MooseMan has said - not going to happen with current setup.

I like Gomadic for adapter cables though - they have a great selection, and one page makes it easy to select the proper cable set: http://www.gomadic.com/phonetopda.html - they also say to contact them if you need something that's not in their catalog and they will make it.

I especially like their Lifetime Warranty & Exchange -
"Gomadic also offers a one-of-a-kind lifetime exchange program for our PDA/Laptop to Mobile Phone and GPS Cable products. Should the original purchaser of any Gomadic WIC, UGC or PGC product change phones, GPS, PDAs or laptops to another Gomadic supported device, we will exchange our product free of charge. Please note that this exchange program is limited to our Wireless Internet and GPS Cable products only."

The Supplynet ( http://www.thesupplynet.com ) is another source for cables. You could contact them directly as well for cables not listed on their site, provided that such a cable would work.
 
I have an even older phone (Nokia 3285) and also tried the cable thing. It's just not worth it to dial a phone number. I don't use SMS that much either, whcih would have been the only real advantage of the cable. Most phones today have BT and assume you're going to connect using BT. At worst, they have IR and you can connect to the phone through IR, at least for syncing phone numbers and sending SMS messages to the phone. I keep meaning to get a new phone but mine i still working fine so I just keep waiting for it to break.:)
 
I have AT&T Wireless and have been using the BT between my PDA (T|T and now T|3) and mobile (Sony Ericsson T68i, T616, & T637) flawlessly for a while now. It's lovely. I can be driving and look into the "Contacts" thingy using the "D-Pad", find my intended contact, hit "Dial" and the BT will send it directly to my phone. A lovely thing. Even lovlier is my BT headset which takes the call and all I've done is put my hand on my PDA.

BT. It finally makes sense.
POL9A
 
Car + T3 + Headset. That's what I'm talkin' about. Very nice.

You spend more time (I've tested) hitting a "lookup" on my Nokia 8260 than you would using the D-Pad on the T3. The D-Pad is better and faster than contacts plus PROVIDED you don't mistakenly look for "first name." Contacts Pro would find "Tom" or "Smith."

But the D-Pad, "S," then "M," is 2 keystrokes and a scroll - then center button and dial. Plus you've got every number in your life on the T3, and don't have to program the limit (usually 200?) numbers on the phone - and still never have the right one!

Yep. I'll be phone shopping next week. Bluetooth dialler it is. Best part is, with the hands free you'll almost NEVER have to clean the martini up off the seat . . . . .
 
I like the Bluetooth Jabra stuff the best. I'm still keeping mine for the day that Sprint/Treo has it available. I did use briefly the T3 with a Sony/Ericsson T618i combo on AT&T - it was sweet until we went Sprint network.

Never ceases to amaze me that the two largest cellular networks (Sprint and Verizon) in the country have yet to configure useable phones with BT....it's another conspiriacy.

Actually, bad planning on using CDMA technology.

Check out all of the phones at www.phonescoop.com.

They do a good job of showing what's coming, what's been and what will be.
 
...is that with a BT phone (and a Mac, heh heh :D ) one can iSync their info from the computer to the phone via BT. (A matter of exporting the vCards into "Address Book" and configuring it appropriately, thus saving time inputting all that jazz by hand.) There may be a PC solution that works in the same way. If there's one thing I know, it's that 99.44% of the cool programs are configured for the PC and very few ofthem are ever ported over to the Mac.

In terms of BT headsets, I tried the style where it hangs over the ear and the mike booms around the face, but it was heavy and puled away from my ear to where I couldn't hear the other party. That, and it always felt like it was going to fall off and I didn't feel like I could run across the street with my hands full and it would stay on. Either way, if I had to hold it on my ear to hear better or to keep it on, it's not truly hands-free, is it? (Maybe my ears are configured wrong. :( )

The solution I found is the BlueSpoon. I have the silver Digital version and it works like a dream. It took some time for my ear to get used to it, but now I look less like an "I, Robot telemarketer" and more like Ghost In The Shell. Howard Chui is a good resource for all types of phone stuff. Dig into their forums for even more phone-y goodness.

It's funny. Without the boom mike in front of my mouth, people always think I'm talking to them when I'm actually on the phone. It never ceases to amaze.
POL9A
 
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