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6:01 pm
April 10, 2011
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Hi,
I have a SpeakOut SIM in an antique Palm Tungsten W, which works fine for text messaging and the odd phone call with the wired headset. I mainly use the PDA features, which suit my needs and I have gotten a lot of mileage out of it. I know the phone is old, but it still does what I need it to.
Out of curiosity I tried to set up a GPRS network connection which appeared to be successful, and I was hopeful that someone on the board might be able to answer whether or not simple WAP or web browsing is still possible with this device. The original built in browser is completely obsolete, it depended on web clipping provided by Palm which has long since disappeared. If anyone on the board is familiar with this device and has any suggestions, I'd be interested in hearing back. I can post the settings I made for the network connection on request if it would help. I don't need anything sophisticated, it would be great to just get news headlines while on the bus to work.
Thanks!
Lee
6:57 pm
April 22, 2009
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Here is what is comical. The Rogers data network Speakout uses is so old and decrepit, that it was around when the Palm Tungsten W was hot stuff! I have high confidence that if you can program in some APN settings, you should have positive results. I will be little help on how to configure your Palm Tungsten W, but these are the settings you would have to input:
APN: goam.com
Username: wapuser1
Password: wap
Proxy: 10.128.1.69
Port: 80
2:36 am
April 10, 2011
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Thanks for the reply. These were the settings I tried out, I made a "connection" to GPRS with "goam.com" as the APN, other settings default (quality of service = default, header compression = off, and data compression = off). Then I made a "Network" using the above connection, and added the settings for username & pass, selected PPP as connection type, idle timeout as power off, next service as none, query dns = checked (this was default, otherwise you need to provide primary & secondary dns), ip address automatic = checked (otherwise you need to provide an ip address). I am not exactly sure about the ip or dns settings, or if I have missed another setting, but I can connect with these settings no problem.
I found two older pieces of software which I tried out, Palm WAP browser 2.2.5 and Web Pro 2.1 from the Palm update. The installer crashed so I am not sure these installed in one piece. I placed the proxy ip and port in the browser (10.128.1.69:80), and I do seem to get a transfer of information but it ends with an error that webpro "Could not transcode the character set of this page", and on a couple occaisions I got a page full of garbage characters. I haven't figure out the settings for the WAP browser yet, I'll bump the the post if I get anything figured out. I think this is a matter of settings, which I am guessing at and I will probably need to find a newer compatible browser. With Palm OS 4.1, the choices were never numerous. The experiments will continue ...
Thanks
12:32 pm
October 15, 2008
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I'm not exactly sure what you're looking for, but I had browsing working on my old Palm Treo 650 before using the Blazer browser, using exactly those proxy (and network) settings.
The only other n/w settings I can see are Fallback (set to None), IP Address - Automatic, and Query DNS - yes. I don't see any of the settings you listed.
Hope that helps. Good luck!
4:02 am
April 10, 2011
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I'm just looking for the ability to do some simple browsing. Your settings are very similar to mine, and I can get the GPRS connection no problem. It's the browsers that refuse to work, so I suspect that they are obsolete or maybe not set up properly. The network is probably WAP 2.0, my WAP browser is 1.2 compliant I think. Thanks for the reply.
3:25 am
April 10, 2011
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Follow up post to report success with PocketLink 2.56c browser (settings proxy ip: 10.128.1.69:80, proxy user: wapuser1, proxy pass: wap). The formatting is weak but readable, and of course it can't open all sites but lite mobile sites like ABC news work which is exactly what I was after. I couldn't find any proxy settings that worked for WAP browsers (port 9201/9203) so I guess Speakout is limited to reformatted/compressed HTML? I am hoping to try Opera Mini 3 at some point, but that requires a really rare Java runtime for the 68k Tungsten W that may be hard to find.
