| A lot of the questions that I get about the CECT i68 | | | | with your service and you won't need to do anything. If |
| (nicknamed the SciPhone) have to do with the Internet, | | | | it's not included, just log onto your carrier's web site or |
| web browsing, or getting online. The other day, I had | | | | call them to add it. |
| someone write me and ask me "how to put the | | | | If you are going with pay as you go or prepaid, you |
| Internet on the SciPhone." I knew what the writer | | | | can still absolutely get online. Some carriers will just |
| meant, although if you read the email literally, it looked | | | | charge you per MB, (but this can be expensive if |
| like he thought that you had to add this feature onto | | | | you're going to use this service a lot.) Other times, they |
| the phone yourself. You don't. The phone is already | | | | do offer a monthly package. An example is |
| set up to include the web browsing feature. It's one of | | | | AT&T's GoPhone media net package that runs |
| the main selling features of the phone. You may have | | | | about $4.99 per 1MB of usage. (At least this is true |
| to obtain data access for it or change some of the | | | | right now. They change this sometimes.) Also, you can |
| settings to get it to recognize your carrier, but most of | | | | sometimes find prepaid sim cards that include unlimited |
| what you need should already be on the phone. I'll | | | | data for a month and run about $20. (Sometimes, |
| explain this more in the following article. | | | | these include talk and messaging as well, but still expire |
| Getting Web Access For The CECT i68: When I said | | | | after 30 days.) |
| that you probably already had most of what you | | | | Configuring The SciPhone To Browse The Web Or |
| needed to get online for the SciPhone, what I meant | | | | Use The Internet: I'm sometimes asked how to |
| was that you typically will not need to mess with the | | | | configure the i68 for the Internet or the web. Again, this |
| firmware or download any thing to get this phone | | | | is just semantics, but you really do not need to do any |
| online. Now, you may chose to download Opera Mini, | | | | configuration. First off, as I said above, make totally |
| which is a very nice (and totally free) Java web | | | | sure that you have access to data. Next, make sure |
| browser which compresses the data so that you can | | | | that your sim card (or cards) or installed correctly. |
| typically see the whole online screen on your phone's | | | | They do not go in the same way for both cards. The |
| screen. Opera Mini also ensures that you use (and | | | | gold sides should be facing one another, so that they |
| therefore pay for) less data. But, this is not mandatory | | | | make sort of a sandwich. |
| because the phone has a pretty decent WAP | | | | Finally, go into your data settings and make sure that |
| browser that works as well. | | | | they are pointing to the carrier that you are using. For |
| But speaking of paying for data, you must have some | | | | example, if you are using AT&T, you should see |
| in order for this to work. What I mean by this is that | | | | AT&T under the GPRS, WAP, MMS, and Java |
| the sim card (or cards, since this is a dual sim phone) | | | | settings. You should not see China mobile or something |
| that you are using must include data or web access in | | | | like that. If you do, then you'll just need to go in for |
| order to browse the web. This of one of a few places | | | | each setting and either change or edit it to point to |
| where people sometimes get confused. They either | | | | AT&T or whichever carrier you use. You can |
| think that this phone includes WiFi and therefore they | | | | often get these settings from the carrier directly. Or, |
| should be able to access the web via hot spots (which | | | | you can find set up instructions for just a couple of |
| doesn't work for the SciPhone.) | | | | bucks online. Some people even offer software that |
| Or, they'll think that because they downloaded Opera | | | | does the work for you, but even if you're going to do |
| Mini, this means that they should be able to get online | | | | this manually, it certainly isn't at all hard. Just change |
| for free. This really isn't true. Although you will use less | | | | each setting one by one and make sure that you hit |
| data because of the compression, you will still need | | | | "apply" at the end. |
| data on your sim card. Sometimes, this is just included | | | | |