GPRS is a common internet connection that mobile (cell) phones have but the down side is that it costs a lot of money as you are using the mobile phone operator’s network. I have a Laptop running Mac OS X 10.4.10 Tiger and a Sony Ericsson K750i mobile phone. I have set them up to use bluetooth to connect to dial-up internet provided by Heart Internet for 10p/min with speeds of 9.6Kb/s. I wanted to use GPRS because it has a faster connection speed than dial up and is charged for data transfer instead of time. I connected the phone to my laptop using the USB cable and it showed up fine in the network settings. The problem is there is no way to get it to use GPRS, only dial up. I went to www.taniwha.org.uk and downloaded the scripts of my Sony Ericsson phone and copied them to /Library/Modem Scripts
. In network settings these new scripts showed up under Modem. I found that CID10 worked on my K750i phone.
Now you have your mac set up to use the phone as a GPRS modem you need to set up the ISP details. There you type the number to dial for dial-up internet I entered pp.vodafone.co.uk
as I use PrePay Vodaphone. If you want to send email from your mac using GPRS then set up the SMTP server as send.vodafone.net
. There is a like on www.taniwha.org.uk that show you all the settings of many of the mobile network operators throughout the world.