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03-25-2003, 02:48 PM
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Editor-in-Chief
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Wi-Fi SD Cards Delayed Until Mid-Year
SD wireless networking cards, some of this year’s most eagerly awaited peripherals, won’t be available until several months after their originally announced release dates.
Read more at http://www.brighthand.com/article/Wi...Until_Mid-Year
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03-25-2003, 04:49 PM
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Mobile Consultant
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This is very dissapointing
Well, with this bad news, I may be forced to jump ship to PPC. I've been waiting for a WiFi solution for the Palm platform, but I am tired of waiting. The PPC camp has been enjoying WiFi for quite sometime, and I don't have a need for Bluetooth.
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03-25-2003, 06:18 PM
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Cantankerous Palm Guy
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Am I the only one who thinks Socket is insane? Why *wouldn't* they provide drivers for the platform that has something like 60% of the handheld market? That just doesn't make sense from a business standpoint. The cost of developing the drivers (or even better, contracting out for their development) can't possibly be that high. I'd love to see their business case justification for this one.
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03-25-2003, 06:27 PM
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Hopefully HP will release a SDIO update for my h1910, that sandisk 256mb + wi-fi card looks to be awesome.
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03-25-2003, 10:11 PM
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Re: This is very dissapointing
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Originally posted by gtmtnbiker98
I may be forced to jump ship to PPC. I've been waiting for a WiFi solution for the Palm platform, but I am tired of waiting.
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You do know that you can get a Wi-Fi card for the Sony NX series and NZ90, right? |
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03-26-2003, 12:18 AM
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Boo....
Oh well, I guess I'll just buy one when the next schl year start.
Either way....
BOOOOOOOOOoooOOOOOoooOOOO.....  |
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03-26-2003, 04:41 AM
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Re: This is very dissapointing
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Originally posted by gtmtnbiker98
Well, with this bad news, I may be forced to jump ship to PPC. I've been waiting for a WiFi solution for the Palm platform, but I am tired of waiting. The PPC camp has been enjoying WiFi for quite sometime, and I don't have a need for Bluetooth.
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March 24, 2003, AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Can't live without it -- Bluetooth is one technology I was determined not to like but now can't live without. At the time of its introduction, I didn't see much need for Bluetooth. The promise was that it would be built into printers, modems, PDAs, and digital cameras. I use all of those devices, but I never saw cables as a hindrance significant enough to trade away the much higher speed of USB, Wi-Fi, or Ethernet. And then three events collided to bring me to Bluetooth: I started traveling more often, Apple sent me a D-Link Bluetooth dongle for my PowerBook, and Nokia sent me a prototype of its 3650 phone, which is now shipping in the United States. Now I routinely file stories, download e-mail with attachments, and check breaking news from airport gates, taxis, hotel lobbies, and conference rooms. I don't have to hunt all over the building for an open Wi-Fi channel or an analog modem line. Bluetooth is useful for more than just Internet connectivity. I use it to transfer appointments, contacts, images, audio clips, and Java programs between my notebook and my phone. When I'm without my PowerBook and someone at work has to send me a document right away, the 3650 downloads and stores the entire e-mail message on its memory card. I scroll through the message on the 3650's little screen and then beam the message to my PowerBook as soon as I return to the hotel. There is plenty of magic here from Apple, Nokia, T-Mobile, and D-Link, but Bluetooth makes it worth using together.
http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?l...aa0039369d98ab |
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03-26-2003, 07:40 AM
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Cantankerous Palm Guy
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Re: This is very dissapointing
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Originally posted by gtmtnbiker98
The PPC camp has been enjoying WiFi for quite sometime, ...
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...yes, but not in SD form, which I think is the crux of this article. There are WiFi CF cards and sleds for many PalmOS devices already... |
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03-26-2003, 02:12 PM
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Mobile Enthusiast
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WiFi options
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There are WiFi CF cards and sleds for many PalmOS devices already...
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Yes - but not a nice solution. CF is only supported by the Handera unit (quite outdated now) or by going to the high-end extreme of sonys NX or NZ devices. The only other option for WiFi is to double the size of your PDA by adding a sled (are there any sleds other than Xircom sleds for select PalmSG devices?). |
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03-26-2003, 02:41 PM
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Mobile Evangelist
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Re: Wi-Fi SD Cards Delayed Until Mid-Year
The article states that the Sychip 802.11 SDIO Card has been Granted by the FCC on 24 febr 2003. But the only 802.11 products (modules) of Sychip i could find have been granted on 11/07/2002 and seem to be CF/PCMCIA based and called WLAN6060BB/EB which currently supports Windows 2000/NT/XP (Notebooks) and/or Win CE3.0 OS/Pocket PC 2002, 2000 (PDA). Future versions will include Win CE.NET and Palm OS
http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/fo...ive_or_pdf=pdf
http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws....QPUWLAN6060EBK
Sychip does mention "WLAN6060 product series" which includes a WLAN6060SD Network Interface Card with SDIO support. But i don't find any info about this SDIO Card (not even in the mentioned manual).
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