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More info?)
Must be why I'm dumping my T3 and going for a Dell with M$mobile.... it just
works...
Palm dont consider the 6230 popular enough yet to write drivers/support
for....
"John Bartley" <john.bartley@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1108068363.863845.249080@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> My wife has just acquired a very nice mobile she's fond of, the Nokia
> 6230
>
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,47665,00.html
> and unlocked it so it may be used on her old ATTWS plan (as the current
> Cingular plans available are muich more spendy than her gransfathered
> deal).
>
> HOWEVER, there appears to be more rectal-cranial inversion at PalmOne
> than previously suspected.
>
>
http://palmone.com/us/support/downloads/phonelink.html#... specifies
> they've botched the BT drivers, and SMS is dysfunctional.
>
> "When paired with Nokia 6230 and Nokia 6820, SMS and Dialing from the
> handheld are not supported on the following devices: Palm Bluetooth
> Card, Tungsten T, Tungsten T2, Tungsten T3 or Zire 72. NOTE: SMS and
> Dialing are supported on Tungsten T5."
>
> This is also noted on USENET as having been going on since last summer:
>
http://tinyurl.com/63ydm
>
http://tinyurl.com/4h29d
>
http://tinyurl.com/6rlrs
>
> Talking to PalmOne support was an exercise in customer abuse, and "Help
> me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" doesn't work, either.
>
> If anyone knows of a solution, or someone willing to tackle it, please
> post here, or contact me directly at johnbartley3 {at] yahoo [daht} com
>
> Thank you kindly.
>