iPod Touch + Blackberry = ?

March 22, 2009 3:16 PM

I have a Blackberry. I have an iPod Touch. Is there anyway I can get the iPod Touch to use the Blackberry to access the internet?
posted by Franklin76 to technology (13 comments total)

don't think so, how would you connect the two? no bluetooth on the touch, no wifi radio transmitter on the berry, no infrared on either.
posted by By The Grace of God at 3:42 PM on March 22

I would sell both and buy an iPhone, which does all the things those two devices do.
posted by musofire at 3:48 PM on March 22

Thanks a lot Muso -- except that the Blackberry was given to me for my job, and the iPod Touch came with the Macbook I bought.
posted by Franklin76 at 3:50 PM on March 22

Like By The Grace of God says, there isn't any way I can think of to connect the two. I'm assuming there is a reason wi-fi isn't working for you, but I don't think this is going to work at all. Would be pretty cool if it could, though.
posted by heavenstobetsy at 4:27 PM on March 22

It should be somehow possible in theory. The 2G iPod touch has bluetooth. I would assume, with some sort of jailbreaking or hacks, you should be able to connect to the internet via BT.

This may or may not require waiting for iPhone OS 3.0's release, since it officially unlocks the bluetooth.
posted by floam at 4:36 PM on March 22

According to this post, there's a thing you can buy that will allow you to do this. I found it by googling blackerry tether ipod touch. I have a touch, but no blackberry, so I can't comment personally on how this works in real life.
posted by rtha at 4:38 PM on March 22

I realize this might defeat the purpose, but you could use the Blackberry tethered to your laptop to get internet, then broadcast a shared ad-hoc connection for the ipod.
posted by JuiceBoxHero at 4:57 PM on March 22

floam, the 2G iPod touch does not have bluetooth.
posted by polexa at 7:26 PM on March 22

Why can't you just surf from the BlackBerry?
posted by saradarlin at 9:36 PM on March 22

Ok, I was just listening to the gdgt podcast and they actually talked about bluetooth on the iPod touch. There is a bluetooth chip on it, but the only thing that has access to it is that nike ipod add-on thing. For the sake of the record, I came back here to clear this up :)
posted by polexa at 1:53 PM on March 23

floam, the 2G iPod touch does not have bluetooth.

Why do you say that?

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12683&Itemid=70
posted by floam at 6:11 PM on March 25

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posted by polexa at 6:33 PM on March 25

Oh how I hoped there would be an answer here.
posted by Jairus at 10:59 AM on May 27 [1 favorite]