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I'm not sure what you mean when you say "some extra scripting" and "with the right setting". Even if I connect my phone manually using rfcomm (with sudo), Network Manager has no way to setup a PPP connection, let alone one with all the extra initialization needed for a 3G dialup - this is a regression from 0.6 where it was possible to set up generic PPP connections that worked both with standard modems and with bluetooth phones if you bound them manually.
I got my phones to work with dial-up, using a 20 line script (with several "sudo") that does the rfcomm bind and starts gnome-ppp or wvdial with the correct configuration - I wouldn't call that simple, and it took me quite a while to get it right so I wouldn't call that easy to the point that the average Joe can do it.
I think the current situation where someone with no system administration or programming background CAN NOT get bluetooth based network access, far from ideal and is several years behind the competition - on another operating system I can get both my bluetooth phones to setup dial-up networking in minutes without any need for scripting or running obscure administrator only commands.
What I expect from Canonical and Network Manager developers, is to have "mobile broadband" connections start by attaching to a bluetooth device that supports DUN, instead of only using USB and PCMCIA connected modems.