Surfing WWW With Your
Palm
Okay hang on to your hats. This is where I show you (kinda) how you don't need no "Mobile Internet Kit" to make your Palm talk to your mobile phone, unlike what that salesman insisted when you asked about getting mail from the Internet.
Yeah of course he will try to sell you the Mobile Internet Kit. Why not? It's another $149 (in US Dollars I think, I dunno, never needed to buy it heheheh!) to his commision.
Here's what you need:
- Data-enabled mobile phone (eg Nokia, Siemens)
- Infra-Red port on the mobile phone
- PalmOS version 3.3 and higher (note: For versions lower than 3.3, you need the IR patch from Palm.com)
- Web Browser for PalmOS (Avantgo reader will do fine for most purposes)
- Mail software capable of POP3. The stock Mail app that comes with PalmOS is not able to do this!
Step 1 - Activating Data Services
First and foremost, call your mobile operator and request for "Data Services" to be activated. Note that, naturally, your costs will go up for the subscription to this service, as well as additional charges for any airtime you use under this. Each operator, be it Singtel, M1 or Starhub, labels it differently. I personally only have experience with M1 (I'll tell you my frustrations with Singtel at another time), and they call it "M1 e-Data". This is all you need. However if you have the money to spend, go for the full "M1 e-Office" service.
Proceed to Step 2 only after you have confirmed with your operator that the Data services have been activated, otherwise you won't be able to test the connection.
Step 2 - Configuring your Palm
Okay now we get down to mess with your Palm. Go to your Preference screen, and select Connections. Then follow these steps:
- Tap New
- In the Name field, type any name you want. I named it "Nokia 8210" because that's my mobile phone model.
- In the Connection Method field, select "IrCOMM to Modem" (this is because I want it to talk to my mobile phone through the Infra Red port)
- Leave everything else alone, ie set to default settings
Once you have done that, your screen should look something like this:
Connection Preference screen
