[G4] Nokia phones and OS X

[Alex Hurst]

Hi all.

Having just got a USB Belkin Bluetooth dongle (not to mention a USB 
hub), I got my Palm Tungsten T3 PDA wirelessly communicating with the 
G4 pretty quickly. Surprisingly Hotsync via Bluetooth is almost as 
quick as using a cradle/cable.

I was disappointed, however, that OS X appears to support such a 
limited range of Nokia mobile phones - which certainly doesn't 
include my good but obsolescent 6310i. A little research on the Net 
showed that there were a lot of people out there having the same 
problem. Fortunately there is a solution, from a company called 
Macmedia based in Slovakia of all places:

  www.macmedia.sk

Their Phone Manager program works very well with this model, not only 
allowing address books to be imported and exported, but also 
Bluetooth SMS texting from the Mac keyboard, which is relayed by the 
mobile. The instructions for set-up were commendably clear, and 
everything worked first time. There are other programs supporting 
other models.

All in all, a lot less hassle than I expected, particularly after my 
problems networking two G3 Classic machines to the OS X G4.

Best

alex