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following this thread with great interest, I acquired boost i450 from best buy a couple of weeks ago, $80 as promised included $10 usage charge which I'm still, ever so slowly, eating thru. Hardest part about getting that running was opening up the stupid plastic slash-your-fingers packaging - after that, smooth sailing, phone works, simple simple simple.

Few days later purchased usb power/data cable from icywu - they del'd the cable quickly, but it was wrong cable (data only, no power), and the USB plug end of cable has already split open, and the CD they shipped was blank - other than that, they were perfect. My advice, find nextel store as someone else advised, and get cable there - it seems the first tech advice on these things is scrap the crap cable and buy quality.

Once cable plugged in, did the webjal / mologogo thing, took a few tries but it did finally get going (switched from media center PC to XP pro, seemed to help) and once webjal saw i450, all was good. Then took i450 (without any pc) in the car for a ride, with mologogo app running, got home, and VIOLA, I'm on a map. pretty amazing.

Question for anyone still reading - if i450 can reroute NMEA or whatever the GPS is providing up to mologogo site and have it assimilated there, can it do the same thing onto locally attached PC instead? How?

Also, can i450 run the mologogo app and be a data modem for tethered pc at same time?

Greatly appreciate all the tips, esp Purdoom's tutorials. Not sure how I would've ever figured out the phone number is "S=2#777", for instance.