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RE: WHAT?! $300???
RE: WHAT?! $300???
RE: WHAT?! $300???
Palm's biggest challenge. It has been selling to many individual users which to date has given
them the large market share in PDA's. HOWEVER, if they DON'T address the corporate buyers
QUICKLY they WILL lose to the Pocket PC PDA's!
From a corporation standpoint they could care less if individuals are buying Palm's for their own
use, however good luck on finding support to sync with the corporate network! Trust me,
I am in a fortune 300 company, and the mentality around here is that Palm's are great for
simple uses, but not for custom apps... I am fighting that, but I am afraid I will probably lose
to the Pocket PC's, if for any other reason, we are a "Microsoft shop" argument! (I shudder
everytime I think about that one!)
RE: WHAT?! $300???
RE: WHAT?! $300???
And this has nothing to do with Palm's mentality.. Xircom is who is making the device.
RE: WHAT?! $300???
RE: WHAT?! $300???
RE: WHAT?! $300???
Exactly. If Palm (or any other PDA maker for that matter) was smart, they'd find a way to get this functionality built into a unit itself. Size and power are always factors of course, but 802.11 connectivity built into a Palm is probably the Holy Grail for many corporate IT departments.
RE: WHAT?! $300???
Also, whatever happened to using a GSM cellphone via IR to access the internet? $300 + monthly fees, not my cup of tea thank-you very much.
RE: WHAT?! $300???
Yes, taking a laptop with an 802.11b card works well in most cases.. but I, personally, look forward to being able to check my email without having to boot up my laptop. :)
RE: WHAT?! $300???
RE: WHAT?! $300???
I am unaware if PalmNet is using 802.11b. Does anyone else know?
More Details
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RE: More Details
and a short description here http://www.xircom.com/cda/page/0,1298,0-0-1_1-1730,00.html
Looks kinda chunky, but not too bad.
RE: More Details
Battery
Lithium-Ion‚ rechargeable via Palm cradle
2 hours of continuous transmission
This seems to me to mean that it might have "pass-through" capability. It's looking very, very good, if that's the case.
RE: More Details
http://www.xircom.com/d-docs/pdf/datasheetinpdf/PWEds61401.pdf
Sorry about the length of the URL.
This cries out for a keyboard pass-through!
on this module! If they've got that, they've got my business! I'd
no longer need to schlep a laptop at all.
RE: This cries out for a keyboard pass-through!
RE: This cries out for a keyboard pass-through!
RE: This cries out for a keyboard pass-through!
It's my understanding that Palm devices only support one device at a time on the hotsync connector anyway.
RE: BIG and UGLY...
-Call me "Pink"
RE: This cries out for a keyboard pass-through!
802.11b != big
????
802.11b != "big"
ever seen a wireless LAN card for a PC? It's the same size as any other PC Card (PCMCIA) with a small bulge for the antenna.
That said, I'm getting tired of dropping $200-$300 for these custom-fit Palm expansion solutions.
I'd much rather have an PC CARD expansion sled. That would allow me to use the cards I already use in my laptop.
RE: battery = big
RE: This cries out for a keyboard pass-through!
Why not build a "sled" along the lines of the PC Card expansion "jackets" that the iPaq uses? It provides the power, is much more expandable, and is less expensive (when you consider that you can reuse your existing PC Cards.)
-pc-
Pocket PC wins again..
RE: Not completely
RE: Pocket PC wins again..
RE: Acronyms
RE: Two Words Why Pocket PC Loses again..
Wireless LAN solutions consume much more power than similar Bluetooth set-ups, even if the former has already become a defacto standard with BT being so slow off the blocks.
Use your card solution without an independent power source and add it to the already power intensive tendencies of the Pocket PC devices (I speak as an owner) and you really don't have a convenient solution...
I want this!
OK, so THATs the difference with Bluetooth
On the downside, its a big unit, and I would like to use my keyboard with it.
The Bluetooth card (announced by Palm) or the BT sleds for Palm V series are a lot smaller, and thus look easier to carry about.
BT also being cheaper is great.
Not using the SD slot has an advantage in that you can still run apps from the card. So using the Universal Connector is good, but a kbd pss through is fairly essential.
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mondo
Sydney, Australia
RE: OK, so THATs the difference with Bluetooth
OrionNE
RE: OK, so THATs the difference with Bluetooth
RE: OK, so THATs the difference with Bluetooth
OrionNE
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WHAT?! $300???