The Nokia N800 can not use some Windows Mobile 5 SmartPhones for Internet Sharing
There. I said it.
Before broadcasting this to the world, I wanted to wait until I had a solution to the problem or a commitment from Nokia or Microsoft to fix this, but I came up empty on all 3 counts. This post on the InternetTabletTalk forums describes the situation in detail, but here’s a brief primer:
- Windows Mobile 5.0 AKU 3 (and higher), SmartPhone Edition no longer has Bluetooth DUN functionality. The Cingular BlackJack has this version of WM and presumably all of the newer SmartPhones are in that boat as well.
- The Nokia 770 and N800 Internet Tablets currently only support Bluetooth DUN as a way to share a phone’s internet connection.
- Windows Mobile 5.0 AKU 3 supports an alternative method for connection sharing: PAN.
- There are scripts available for the 770 that force it to share internet connections over PAN. It’s pretty hairy to get those scripts running, but it works.
- Those scripts sort of work on the n800, but Opera can’t use the resulting connection for some reason.
Nokia hasn’t announced any plans, yet, to officially support PAN. You can make your voice heard on the matter here.
Microsoft hasn’t announced any plans, yet, to put DUN support back in. You can make your voice heard on the matter here.
John Tokash 
Hi John, from now on you can recommend your readers to have their voice heard in the maemo public roadmap, featuring a wishlist open to everybody coming with sensible and argumented ideas.
Provisional URL: http://test.maemo.org/community/roadmap.html
It’s probably more boring than Ari’s blog but believe me, the roadmap page is where you want your wishes listed.
Thanks for your blog.
this really sucks!
But I do not think that this has anything to do with MS. Phone service providers can change the OS in their phone excluding features. And this is the case. They don’t want you to use their phone as a modem, they want you to pay for their modems and expensive data plans.