P800 Ir?

[diem]

Calling all SonyEricsson P800 & Psion owners!

I am on the very verge of buying a P800, but I realised there's one question I haven't yet asked anyone.

Does it work as a modem with a netBook via IR? Given that I'll bet it supports IrOrBex, does it still support good old IRComm?

Obviously the netBook does not and will never support Bluetooth, IR is my only connectivity option.

Thanks in advance for any advice on this one.

[MikeMcC]

Does it work as a modem with a netBook via IR? Given that I'll bet it supports IrOrBex, does it still support good old IRComm?This newsgroup posting suggests that it does:

Message 2 in thread
From: Craig Chambers
Subject: Re: PSION GPRS settings for SonyEricsson P800?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.psion.misc
Date: 2003-02-08 05:26:44 PST

In article <b1m83r$1498er$2@ID-11141.news.dfncis.de> says...
> Anyone figured them out yet?
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> Regards,
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> Johan Lindahl
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If you have a GPRS aware SIM, it should work out of the box without too much messing around.
I have simply set my netBook an internet account with smart dialling disabled and the standard dialup number of *99#.

The modem is the standard 'Infrared Mobile Phone' setting, with the baud rate set to 115200. I also enabled terminal detect on the Advanced tab.

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Craig Chambers

A personal comment from an ex-Psion Teklogix employee

[diem]

Brilliant, thanks Mike.

[Kipper]

I have a netBook and p800. I have had total success using my p800 as an ir modem to log into my ISP email and read/send stuff, so I am certain internet will work perfectly too.

HOWEVER, I could not send ir SMSs from my netbook to my p800. It just says no response from modem. Anyone had any better luck with SMS? Maybe the settings need changing?