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 Originally Posted by mbrenner
It would be a mistake to view this as some sort of approval of DUN usage. Sprint phones have had this ability with cables for years. They even sold the software and cables to to it a few year back for their standard vision phones. My Sanyo vm4500 could do it if I used software that was posted on the sprint website.
Just because a capibility is included doesn't mean that an associated behavior is sanctioned. My motorcyle will easially do 110 mph, so will my car. My computer can copy CD's, music and expensive programs. The manufacturers removed copy protection from the computer program CD's but they certainly don't want me making copies.
In the past, tethered DUN wasn't possible right off the bat with the phone....with version 1.12, bluetooth DUN is possible outta the Sprint box. It is true that they had a link on the sprint website directed straight to PDANet, but then removed it later (maybe they didn't, can't remember exactly). Why the heck'd they do that in the first place, anyway??
About your analogies...the motorcycle/car thing I can understand, but not the CD copying part. Manufacturers don't give a dern if you copy your CDs, it's the redistributing and/or selling part that's wrong and I agree with them. Even the car thing is a little tricky because we have a speed limit of 70mph, but it's still perfectly legal for you to ride your motorcycle 110mph... as long as you do it at a drag strip or private roads. Government rules only work in certain places. Sprint rules, on the other hand, work everywhere you want to use your Sprint phone. I'm not trying to say that rules are meant to be broken, but they're always bent.
And in the near future I predict Sprint will bend the rules for the 650 and "light" bluetooth DUN usage. Reason being is that when Sprint first made their "no DUN" rule, dial up was a lot more widespread than it is today. Had they allowed it then their superior service would have been an easy choice for a 56k user and there would have been mayhem on their networks. Now, Sprint's network has matured quite a bit and the majority of American Internet users connect through broadband, and probably MOST ALL of 650 users. Not sure why the initial poster of this thread won't or can't get broadband....perhaps lives in the country???
But the part of my argument that I'd consider having the most weight is Sprint saying they were going to allow it when it was not so buggy. Palm released the new update with DUN usage. Sprint wouldn't have allowed that had they not intended on having some use for it. Certainly it's going to give them a big help in the market place as they are the only carrier who will allow it outta the box (so far). And like I said, the majority of people are only going to find niche opportunities to use this...it's not going to be replacing primary internet connections for most. But even still...if you can stream to ptunes for 6 hours a day, it certainly shouldn't hurt their network to allow somebody on a business trip to download/upload a few text files or presentations or whatever.
Yea...maybe my new argument is ptunes usage only on the treo taking up way more bandwith than a web browser, which is also on the treo. Sprint only charges $15/mo ($10 if you don't want that $5 of free downloads) and I don't see them complaining to ptunes streamers!
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