Sansung Genio Touch as an internet modem/dongle?

Crystaltips1_2

Hello,

I am looking at buying the Samsung Genio Touch and I was wondering whether anyone knows if I can use this phone as an internet modem/dongle for my laptop? I know that I can access internet via the phone but it would be good if i could connect it to my laptop and get internet via my phone. I have googled it but am still unsure whether this would work or not.

Any replies would be great thanks

conja21

You can do it but its MASSIVELY expensive. Why not just get a dongle, much faster and they start at £5 per month. Also avoid pay as you go ones, theyre a rip off too!

benjus

conja21 wrote: »

You can do it but its MASSIVELY expensive. Why not just get a dongle, much faster and they start at £5 per month. Also avoid pay as you go ones, theyre a rip off too!

Not sure what you're talking about here. There's no difference in cost between using a SIM in a tethered phone (i.e. a phone used as a modem) and using the same SIM in a dongle. You seem to have confused the tariff with the method of connection. Having said that, I generally prefer a dongle to a tethered phone.

Which tariff works out best for you depends entirely on what your usage pattern is. I currently have a SIM-only tariff with Orange which includes 500MB data per month. Not very much, but if I just use my phone as a modem occasionally to check my email or suchlike it's not a problem.

If your data requirements are modest you can probably use a "normal" SIM card & tariff (i.e. one intended for use in a phone); if they are greater you'll be better off using a dedicated data plan. Either way, it's a good idea to prevent your laptop from downloading updates etc while on a mobile connection.

JimArnold

I use my Nokia 5800 as an occaisonal modem I use JoikuSpot lite - which ids free and it works

But it eats battery life

Im_just_careful

The Samsung Genio Touch has Bluetooth and with a bit of messing it should be possible to create a Bluetooth Dial Up Network connection (if you buy a Bluetooth dongle I've been very pleased with my Belkin one).

From a bit of Googling the phone seems to support DUN as a Bluetooth profile so it looks hopeful. However getting Bluetooth DUN to work can be a bit of a challenge.

My doubts are that it doesn't seem to be a 3G phone so the overall performance might be disappointing.