Comments on: Sneak Peak: Cambio

Lol, Kazaa for the palm. I don't know about the security of this. If you could connect and then take files from a person that you have been in contact with before just by being 30 ft away from then. It gets king of scary thinking of how this can be missused. I understand right now the program has been crippled so that no files that might contain personal information can be sent, but that is not acceptlable because there are other files that might not have important or personal information that need to be sent.

How is pulling down the menu and press "beam" any more complicated than this !? ... it would be nice if you could explain how complcated the Beam function is ...

>>Makes me think that PalmSource has something else up their sleave for this app...

well...the article mentions Bluetooth - the best reason for this software.

I expect it would run equivalently to a hack - running in the background - but you bring up a good point...

if someone connects to me and starts grabbing files, it'll slow down my handhelds data transfer speeds...

still, I expect you could continue to do other things, if you made the 'server' piece run in the way that a hack does - but maybe not, when you IR beam it doesn't let you do other things. Definately want to make it easy to disable :)

This is one of the great feature I've been looking for. It really make me think back before purchasing PPC to replace my very old PalmV.
However, the Bluetooth features might be make using our Palm is prohibited on air plane. :(

I'm sorry - but this is one of the dumbest programs I've ever seen. It overcomplicates simple software sharing. Now we know what the geniuses at PalmSource have been up to. What are these guys thinking? Sheesh...

I agree, the scope for this app seems limited.

I wonder if it can be used to beam multiple apps simultaneously from a laptop to Palm (ie, without having to accept each one and start the process again)?

Not... What a dumb program. Why complicate something as simple as sharing a file with a rating system?

Well, maybe dumb for you, but for many new Palm users, finding the Beam menu item or even knowing that it exists (or that you can 'beam' something) makes sharing programs a non-starter.

I like the idea, but I'd like to get a copy and have a chance to play with it before I could really say.

> Now we know what the geniuses at PalmSource have been up to. <

A typical PIC troll comment. At PalmSource in February, the guy in the keynote address said that Astraware had built this for them (those guys write some pretty cool stuff).

If the writer has such low regard for PalmSource, it kinda makes you wonder why he/she spends any time on this website... :-)

The key thing this does is let the user who is going to receive the applications make the choice about what to beam (or send, when using Bluetooth). You can beam your app list over to someone, then later after they've made choices, they can grab all the apps they want from your device. They can also beam back the catalogs of other people, so you can find out about programs you might have missed.

It's a nice tool for people that tend to evangelize Palm OS, but its probably not something you'd use everyday.

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Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
Programming help at www.palmoswerks.com

I think the real key to this app will be with BlueTooth and a device that is essentially always on (think treo/new i705 replacement). I can set a list of programs to share to anyone, and with little (hopefully no) effort by me, individuals can be downloading programs from me. It's PAN based Napster.

Running on some sort of BT hub, maybe. But novices that would have trouble beaming are not going to be buying high-end BT devices. Even less likely they'll have even one friend that is BT-enabled.

At the demo someone said that they were considering more stars but wanted to keep things simple until more people saw and used it. I agree I'd like to see at least 4 stars or even 5 if there is room.

Obviously it should go to eleven.

This is Palm Source supprting the palm software developer community. This is Palms way of pushing one of its leads over MS.

Its the software!. I have found myself often beaming the same 4 or 5 programs to every newbie I meet in the hospital. This would just make it easier.

Anything Palm can do help spread 3rd party software should be hailed as great.

It's "CamBio" with a "B", not "CamPio" with a "P". I may be remembering wrong from when I took Spanish in school, but I thouth "Cambio" meant something more like "walk". Any Spanish speakers who can clarify this?

you really have no life.