Bounty makes Mac-BlackBerry tethering a reality
It seems almost criminal that Mac users have been thus far denied the basic human right to tether the immensely popular BlackBerry 8700 series devices to their Macbooks, but thanks to a little elbow grease, determination, and nearly $700 in cold, hard cash, the world's wrongs have been righted. An intrepid character by the name of Daniel Pasco has claimed the bounty offered by Alex King, challenging folks to come up with a solution for using an 8700 as a Mac OS X compatible modem. So far, Mr. Pasco's solution has apparently been verified with the 8700g on T-Mobile and the 8703e on Verizon and Sprint, though we imagine Cingular's would work just the same. In the short term, it looks like the rough cut of the software will be available only to people that had contributed to the reward, but the solution will hopefully find its way into the public domain down the road.[Via TUAW]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
TN @ Oct 21st 2006 8:33PM
Yeah, very good news but what it stinks is they actually going to charge for it, what? after getting the bounty? UNBELIEVABLE !
Grant @ Oct 22nd 2006 3:00PM
#1 - Why unbelievable? The bounty's a nice motivator, but the terms explicitly allow for him to sell the result. Given the difficulty of the problem and the amount of time I'm guessing Daniel put into the solution (I know, I looked into doing it myself), why shouldn't he profit from his work?
If you want a free solution, pick up a
Pearl (8100) and head over here:
http://www.fibble.org/archives/000508.html
It works just as well, if I do say so myself. :)
Damon @ Oct 23rd 2006 2:54PM
So would this s/w make the device an iBerry?
niclet @ Oct 24th 2006 8:30AM
Does Mac OS X Mobile actually exist?
Carlos @ Nov 21st 2006 1:22PM
Any of these solutions work for the 7130e? I would pay for it if it wasnt free.
Shannon @ Nov 2nd 2006 5:08PM
Not charge for it? I don't know, would you work for two months for $700.00? Grow up.