Comments on: Treo 700w, Bluetooth, Mac OS X, and BMW iDrive

By: tom Dazero

tom Dazero — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:02:48 +0000

I was searching the internet for software to sync my Trio 700W to a MacBook Pro and this article was the closet to what I was looking for. Can you advise of what 3rd party software is out there for syncing.

Thanks

Tom

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:55:20 +0000

Jonnymac,

This so cool I can’t even believe it. It actually makes the treo internet service worth something to me now. Thanks so much for the info.

By: Matthew C

Matthew C — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:28:45 +0000

Hey Jonnymac,
Many thanks for sharing your experience here. I’m a PC guy about to switch to MAC and this is a very important consideration. I’d much rather not start paying for wireless when I’m mobile. I’ve used PDAnet for internet service on my Dell laptop until now through my Treo and its Verizon data service.
I don’t even have the MACpro yet and definitely don’t know much about how and what I can install on it. But my impression is that PDAnet is only for Windows computers and not MACs. So how would one install that on the MAC for this purpose?

So it seems that it is necessary to install the Jetware add-on AND the PDAnet.

Many thanks,

Matt

By: jonnymac

jonnymac — Thu, 24 May 2007 06:34:03 +0000

Jim - No, I haven’t been able to get the address book to dial through bluetooth, but honestly, I didn’t put that much effort into it. I’m not sure what the requirements are for address book to work properly — maybe Apple has it posted on their site somewhere?

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 24 May 2007 05:29:46 +0000

Have you been able to get your Mac to use the 700W to dial from the address book? My phone is connected fine but won’t do that - tried my Treo 650 as well and neither it or my 700WX will hook up with the address book. Any ideas?

By: James

James — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:16:46 +0000

I am able to get a connection established using the method above, but it is nowhere near stable. I’ll give you one guess which os locks up on me :)

For now my side solution is to run XP in parallels and then use the PDANET connector via USB, then backwards bridge the connection to OSX. Hopefully someone more skilled than I will create some sort of less convoluted method in the not too distant future.

By: jonnymac

jonnymac — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:55:17 +0000

Great — I’m glad to hear you were able to replicate!

By: Renaun Erickson

Renaun Erickson — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:47:35 +0000

sweet it works! I had to use the PDAnet’s software to get it to work.

By: Renaun Erickson

Renaun Erickson — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:54:04 +0000

I tried the JETWare and didn’t have any luck. Now I am going to try the PDAnet’s software in connection with the JETWare, hopefully it will work. Thanks for the post, it will be sweet if I can get this to work.