i730_usb Using your Samsung i730 as a modem for your laptop by using your dearly paid EV-DO Connection brings tons of benefits. For starters, you become more mobile. If you allready have a EV-DO Internet pcmcia (laptop card), dump it and save some money. Verizon would like you to keep both, the phone and the card, and that’s why there’s a little secret here. The DUN (Dial Up Network) for i730 does not come activated from factory. You have to activate it yourself. Fortunatelly it’s not that hard. It’s just that you won’t find this info in any manual for your phone. Ready? Ok here it is.
Dial **7284 in your while in phone mode and chose “As the modem through Bluetooth” in the secret Data Connection menu that pops up.

Now, if you want to use your i730 as a modem without wires to your computer via Bluetooth, we have the medicine for that too here. Its more complex but once it’s working its… its… sweet!.