VC’s Techie CockTail

One of my favourite feature on my mobile is Bluetooth , an excellent piece of technology which rids us of from the ever growing tangle of wires. In a mobilephone bluetooth is used for various purposes such as sync, remote control, file sharing etc …and Personal Area Networking (PAN) is one of the profiles supported by my SE K550i. Check your phone manual , spec sheet to clarify whether your phone supports this or not.

Actually I was inspired by this thread @ Esato whereby you can access your PC’s broadband internet connection to browse in your mobile / smart phone. First you need to check whether your bluetooth drive is properly installed or not. Default windows bluetooth driver in a windows XP machine wont work, you need to install the driver which came with your bluetooth device.

1. First I paired my K550i with my Acer TravelMate
2. Then using the bluetooth wizard I selected network access as a service I wanted to use my laptop and phone for.
3. Then in the network connections window, I enabled “bluetooth network”
4. In ‘My Bluetooth Places’, I went to the ‘Properties of Network Access’ and i ticked the ‘connect automatically’ checkbox and underneath that in the list i selected “Allow other devices to access internet / LAN ” (see the picture)
5. Then in network connections in the properties of my broadband connection i checked the option to share this net connection and underneath that in the list select “Bluetooth Network”
6. Then in my phone i went to the “Bluetooth->My Devices” section and in the More section of my laptop name i checked Allow Network access -> Always Allow
7. Then in the Data Comm section check whether a profile with bluetooth icon and your PC name has been created (in my case there was a profile with my laptop name)
8. Go to Internet profile -> Create a new profile with the account using my laptop name data account.

Thats all !! Connected my laptop with the internet. Connected my phone with the laptop thru bluetooth. Opened my phone browser and started browsing like YouTube Mobile, Yahoo Mobile. And also tried to the new Opera Mini Beta.

written by Vignesh \\ tags: Sony Ericsson