A few days ago I picked up a new Motorola Razr V3t from T-Mobile.
I had gotten so tired of the brick that is my T-Mobile MDA (HTC Wizard). That device made a lot more sense when I was using Outlook with Windows. However, now that I'm finally rid of Windows, it didn't make much sense with a Mac (The Missing Sync never completely worked properly for me). Plus it was such a brick, and I hated using it as a phone (dialing is a miserable experience on it).
The V3t is an amazing leap forward in phone usability. First of all, I'm amazed that it actually has speach recognition. And yes, I mean speech, not voice recognition! It also has a MicroSD (a.k.a.TransFlash) memory card and it appears as removable media on my desktop when I connect it via USB to my Mac.
More on the virtues of it as a phone later. However, my first task was to get it to work as a GPRS modem with my MacBook Pro. I found this description of how to accomplish that, complete with Apple Modem scripts. Follow the instructions very carefully, and it works perfectly!
The only two significant down sides that I see thus far are that it does not have an email client (though I can access my Yahoo email via the browser) and it does not support EDGE. The latter is quite disappointing considering the MDA does, and the throughput benefit is substantial.
If you prefer to roll your own, T-Mobile has a support article that explains how to make the connection manually.
Finally, the Razr V3t has Java (J2ME) which the MDA did not. So now I can run Google Maps Mobile!
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