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2Double-click the icon or option representing your smartphone. Your computer connects to your smartphone and shows that DUN services are available.

3Double-click the DUN icon.

4Enter your wireless service provider’s settings. Contact your wireless service provider if you don’t have these settings.

5Click Dial. Once the connection is successfully established, you can browse the Internet on your computer or download your email.

TIP If you get a message asking whether you want your computer to remember the dial text for this connection, we recommend that you say yes. This avoids errors and the inconvenience of entering the dial text for every session.

6Look for a network connection icon in the taskbar at the bottom of your computer screen to verify that you are connected.

DID YOU KNOW? You can check the status of the connection by right-clicking the Bluetooth network icon in the taskbar.

NOTE When a DUN connection is active, you cannot use data services on your smartphone. For example, you cannot browse the Web, or send or receive email messages. Also, any scheduled automatic email retrievals do not take place. You can, however, use other wireless features of your smartphone, such as making and receiving phone calls or sending and receiving text messages.

Terminating a Bluetooth DUN Internet session

It is important to end a Bluetooth DUN session after you finish using it. Ending the DUN session lets you use the wireless features of your Treo 680 that require a data connection, it frees up the Bluetooth feature so that you can connect to other Bluetooth devices, and it optimizes battery life, too.

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Palm 680 manual Terminating a Bluetooth DUN Internet session