While travelling with a laptop an internet connection can be very desirable. By using your Windows Mobile Phone as a bluetooth access point, you can connect easily to the internet using GPRS or your regular internet service provider (providing your laptop has bluetooth as well of course). It provides an easy way of sharing your internet connection with your laptop (also known as tethering) while the device still is capable of retrieving its own e-mail and RSS feeds.

This functionality was introduced with Windows Mobile 5 AKU3. Devices with older versions of the operating system depend on dial-up networking, which also works great.

The way you connect to a device has changed quite a bit across desktop operating systems. We have manuals for sharing your internet connection with the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows XP,
• Microsoft Windows Vista