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Posted by Rich Piehl on March 30, 2007, 11:43 pm
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Carl Navarro wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:37:22 -0500, Rich Piehl
>
>> Carl Navarro wrote:
>>> Back in the day, when you went to a Hamfest or Flea Market, someone
>>> always had a converter box that let them use their cell phone with a
>>> stadard Trans 300/330 credit card terminal.
>>>
>>> Does anyone make that for a new cell phone? I'm guessing yes because
>>> there are way too many docking stations that let you use your home
>>> phone on the cell network.
>>>
>>> Anybody have experience with this? My customer is on Alltel and not
>>> adverse to getting a different phone.
>>>
>>> Carl Navarro
>> I believe what you are looking for might be called a Dock n Talk. I
>> found this in a Froogle search.
>>
>>
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=dock+n+talk&hl=en&um=1&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=title
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Take care,
>> Rich
>>
>> God bless the USA
>
> Thanks, Rich!
>
> Unfortunately, I think you have to have ANALOG service to pass modem
> tones.
>
> Try to find THAT nowadays :-)
>
> Carl
>
Well, I don't know what your customer is using for a zon, but Sprint
does have a service for some of their phones called 'phone as modem.'
There's an additional monthly fee for it. I can't find at the moment so
be sure ask a ton of questions, but I do recall seeing something from
Sprint about accessing third party dial up sites. And I know it was for
digital phones because I ran across it while looking at info for my
Treo, which doesn't do analog. Here's a c/p from their website
>
> How do I use the phone as a modem?
> How do I use the phone as a modem?
> Your Sprint Power VisionSM phone can be a high-speed Internet connection for
your laptop computer anywhere on the Sprint Power Vision Network. Simply connect
your Power Vision phone using a USB cable or the built-in connection on
Bluetooth-enabled phones.
> To use this feature, a Sprint Power Vision phone and a Flexible Data Plan are
required.
Maybe it'll help, maybe it won't. In the 'whatever it's worth' department.
Take care,
Rich
God bless the USA
--
Et in terra pax
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