[justinator]

I used to be able to do this with my first color screen'd Sony/Erickson phone and OS X like, 10 years ago via Bluetooth. It was great to work with my Addressbook on the Mac, pick a contact and SMS/Call them. I could also use the phone as a remote control for iTunes, as well.

[gurkendoktor]

Same here! SMS'ing from the 10.4 Dashboard was fantastic. I even had a second Nokia with a GPRS flatrate in my backpack and could use it as an occasional hotspot throughout the week, then charge it on the weekends.

Turning on the iOS hotspot from OS X 10.10 even works exactly like tethering via Bluetooth used to work, from the menu bar.

[jfb]

Yeah, there was a little package called "Bluephone Elite", IIRC, that did this.

[robmcm]

Yup, was great. Let you reply to messages, run apple scripts on proximity, answer and dial the phone...

Not sure why it took apple soooooo long to implement?

[X-Istence]

I used to do this with my Sony Erricson phone as well in 10.2 and 10.3 from Address Book/iSync.

[justinator]

If I also remember correctly, I was able to use this same phone (first phone I had with a camera, I believe - T610?) to snap a shot, and then email it to an address that piped that to a Perl script. That Perl script, then posted the photo to a very simple blog-like app I had written (also in Perl). I handed the site in as an art project I did, after a week road trip.

And then, Instagram happened. Seemed novel at the time - something I made 3 hours before hittin' the road.