Congratulations and thanks to Daniel Pasco, who has created a fantastic solution for using the BlackBerry 870* series as a Bluetooth modem in Mac OS X.
I’ve just tested a development build that allowed me to browse the web and download mail. Awesome! Daniel claims the bounty.
Daniel is hard at work polishing it up and quashing the little quirks that exist in the early dev stages of any product, but it already has been tested and works with the 8700g (T-Mobile) and the 8703e (Sprint and Verizon).
Hopefully a version will be available for testing to all of the bounty contributors soon. More details as I have them.
Again, thanks and congrats to Daniel. He’s worked his tail off on this. Great job!
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Dmitri Von Klein adds this Comment:
Can we expect a public release soon?
October 16th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
Eirik adds this Comment:
Great news, especially now that we finally have a Norwegian Blackberry-importer
http://www.vg.no/pub[...]artid=134295
October 16th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
Marston adds this Comment:
Very very nice! I’m glad the bounty didn’t go to waste.
Could you post some speed numbers you were getting over bluetooth? With the EDGE and EVDO networks? Thanks.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:06 am
BlackBerryCool » Alex King’s bounty has been hunted adds this Pingback:
[...] Who remembers this? The guy who was offering some funds to turn his BlackBerry 8700 into a modem to use with Mac OS X. Well, the bounty’s been hunted by Daniel Pasco who’ll pocket the $675. “Daniel is hard at work polishing it up and quashing the little quirks that exist in the early dev stages of any product, but it already has been tested and works with the 8700g (T-Mobile) and the 8703e (Sprint and Verizon). [...]
October 17th, 2006 at 7:29 am
Hans adds this Comment:
I am interested in purchasing a copy when the Blackberry 8700c tether for the MacBook Pro is available.
Hans
October 17th, 2006 at 11:27 am
timothy adds this Comment:
Any chance the software will work or be modded to other BB models, such as the 7250?
October 17th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
alexking.org: Blog > BlackBerry Modem FAQ adds this Pingback:
[...] There have been a lot of questions about the BlackBerry modem solution that claimed my bounty. I’ll try to answer them below. Please note, this information is current as of writing and may change before a public release of the solution, etc. [...]
October 17th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
UNEASYsilence » Crack Attack: Use the Blackberry as a USB modem on a Mac adds this Pingback:
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October 18th, 2006 at 10:21 am
schalliol adds this Comment:
“Commercial product????” this guy is getting the $675 bounty to make this available, and he’s planning. Alex, was it an oversight that it wasn’t omitted that the resulting software is developed for this bounty and should be free? Generally that is how such bounties work.
October 18th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Big Hot News !!!!!!!! - BlackBerryForums.com : Your Number One BlackBerry Community adds this Pingback:
[...] Thanks to our man, Daniel Pasco who found out a solution for us to use the Blackberry 870* as a BLUETOOTH MODEM. Read it people, Bluetooth !!!! The links are all here in case you think I’m trying to fool you, lol : http://www.tuaw.com/[...]g-a-reality/ http://alexking.org/[...]ounty-winner http://brainmurmurs.[...]rnet-bounty/ __________________ Waiting for the 8800, 8700g still the best for right now! [...]
October 18th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Sam adds this Comment:
LAME if he charges for it. VERY UNCOOL to charge for a product that you get a bounty for.
October 18th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Daniel Pasco adds this Comment:
schalliol and Sam:
If you carefully read the terms of the original bounty post you will see that it explicitly states:
If the solution is not made available for free (ie. is packaged as a commercial product), anyone who contributed to the Bounty must be given a free license.
Since you didn’t actually contribute to the bounty in the first place, I don’t understand why you are complaining.
Also, the $675 only covers about 7.5 hours of the time that we actually put in on the project (4 engineering weeks). If we were billing this work out at our hourly rate it would have cost us in excess of several thousand dollars.
-Daniel Pasco
October 18th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Your Alter-Ego adds this Comment:
Dude- sorry but selling this after you won a contest making it is some seriously bad karma- “7.5 hours” whatever… greedy.
October 18th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Chris adds this Comment:
Dan if you get it working on the 7130e just let me know where to send the check, just price it reasonably because i am still in debt from buying this damn mac! haha
October 18th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
PaulS adds this Comment:
The guy who did the same thing for the T-Mobile Blackberry Pearl offered his solution for free. Maybe someone should give him a bounty, since his heart was with the community…
October 18th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
Justin Pennington adds this Comment:
I will contribute $50 to get a development copy early. Email me payment details. Thanks.
October 18th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
alexking.org: Blog > BlackBerry OS X Tethering Bounty Winner: Daniel Pasco! at blackrimglasses.com adds this Pingback:
[...] alexking.org: Blog > BlackBerry OS X Tethering Bounty Winner: Daniel Pasco!: now if Apple would release Core 2 Duo Mac Book Pro’s, my digital life would be so complete I will probably combust. [...]
October 18th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Naik’s News » How to Use Your BlackBerry 870* as a Bluetooth Modem in OS X adds this Pingback:
[...] BlackBerry OS X Tethering Bounty Winner: Daniel Pasco! [Alex King via jkOnTheRun] [...]
October 18th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
Grant adds this Comment:
Congrats to Daniel – this was a tough nut to crack (I know, I looked at it after making things work with the Pearl).
PaulS – Thanks for thinking of me, but I promise this was a much harder problem! Now if someone would point that we Pearl users have had this for a month to sites like Gizmodo, maybe I’ll put up a tip jar.
October 18th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Jason adds this Comment:
does this mean you can bluetooth DUN a 8703e? thought that wasnt supported? I NEED THIS VERY BAD.. bluetooth or USB tether…!!! jgurnick@gmail.com
October 18th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Mama Mia adds this Comment:
Who cares about Core 2 Duo. Wow, 7% increase in speed. ……z…zzzz…zz…..z….
October 19th, 2006 at 7:00 am
Andyr adds this Comment:
Wow, I just ran across this, as I was trying to find a solution for my 8700 (Tmobile) and my MacBook.
I would be willing to contribute $$ to get a copy of this script, even in beta or to help testing.
The sooner the better, I’m still traveling around with 2 laptops, as I need GPRS while on the road quite often and only Windows supports it currently. I don’t want to mess with tainting my new MacBook with anything Windows….
October 19th, 2006 at 7:47 am
alexking.org: Blog > The Goal of a Bounty adds this Pingback:
[...] This was a considered choice, not an oversight. [...]
October 19th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Alex adds this Comment:
I’m closing comments here, please add any questions, etc. to the FAQ post.
October 19th, 2006 at 11:59 am
Naik’s News » Bounty makes Mac-BlackBerry tethering a reality adds this Pingback:
[...] 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. [...]
October 21st, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Josh’s Blog » Blog Archive » Blackberry Bluetooth Modem for OSX adds this Pingback:
[...] http://alexking.org/[...]unty-winner/ [...]
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:45 pm
BlackBerry tethering software for Mac on the way | BlackBerry Cool adds this Pingback:
[...] thrown their way. In fact, maybe you recall Alex King’s bounty for such a service, which was won by Pulse awhile back. I guess we’ll see how the two services stack up against one another. [...]
July 17th, 2007 at 9:06 am
mattwalters.net // Samsung BlackJack adds this Pingback:
[...] via my phone. This was another issue I had with the BlackBerry that lead to me participating in Alex King’s BlackBerry Bounty. If you stumble across this post while trying to figure out how to tether your BlackJack and [...]
August 28th, 2008 at 11:58 am
How to: tether your Linux notebook to your BlackBerry | BlackBerry Cool adds this Pingback:
[...] I have wanted to tether my MacBook to my BlackBerry, and considering the difficulties getting that done, I can sympathize with an even more marginalized [...]
January 7th, 2009 at 11:50 am
How to: tether your Linux notebook to your BlackBerry at SmartPhoneCool.com adds this Pingback:
[...] I have wanted to tether my MacBook to my BlackBerry, and considering the difficulties getting that done, I can sympathize with an even more marginalized [...]
January 12th, 2009 at 11:03 pm