SD Card Support for EM-500 - pocketPCpassion Discussion Board Dale has posted a press release from Casio that confirms that the EM-500 will support Secure Digital (SD) Memory Cards. SD Cards have the same physical shape of MMC cards, and when Casio first announced that the EM-500 would have MMC it was speculated then that was really for SD support. SD is one of the ways the music industry is trying to prevent from pirated music.
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It appears that the Starbucks - Microsoft wireless deal is getting a lukewarm reception. The article picked up my point about the need for having your own wireless capable device or notebook PC. However, I am surprised that there is no mention about the price.
posted by Frank McPherson 11:26 PM |
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pocketPCpassion.com - CES2001 Diary Our fellow Pocket PC fellas Dale and Jason are working at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this weekend. Dale is going to try and update this page with any Pocket PC scoop he finds. Go get it Dale!
posted by Frank McPherson 11:20 PM |
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BLOGGER - Help Make Blogger Go Faster! It's good to see that people are generously contributing to Pyra's server fund, and tonight (at 11:21 PM EST) Blogger seems to be down right snappy. If you use Blogger, or you enjoy reading this log, and you haven't donated, why not consider giving one now!
posted by Frank McPherson 11:17 PM |
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Trium Mondo is another integrated Pocket PC & cell phone. Unlike Stinger, it looks like this one will run the full suite of Pocket PC applications. Interestingly, Mitsubishi is involved in this somehow.
posted by Frank McPherson 11:12 PM |
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ZDNet: Interactive Week: Microsoft, Starbucks Link Up Coffeehouses I've been thinking about the announcement this week that Microsoft will work with Starbucks to provide wireless Internet access in Starbuck stores. The wireless service will be provided by MobileStar, which provides wireless LAN connectivity in other public places like hotels and airports. Notice that this is wireless LAN, meaning 802.11b and/or HomeRF, both of which MobileStar supports. I find a couple of problems with this announcement. At first read the idea of walking in to a Starbucks and being able to connect wirelessly to the Internet sounds cool, but there are two problems. First, you need your own hardware. Second, it isn't free you will have to pay $15.95 to $59.95 per month depending on usage. Those prices sound absolutely ridiculous to me. In fact, because patrons have to supply their own hardware, I think Starbucks should be provding the access for nothing. I just don't see anyway this is going to fly, but I could be wrong. Another problem this presents is a clash between wireless LANS and WANS. If you are an iPAQ owner you could have one PC Card for wireless WAN access (like Omnisky) and a 802.11b card for wireless Ethernet. Would you want to switch cards when you walked in to a Starbucks? It would be a hassle, but one that you might want to do considering that the 802.11b connection would be faster. I am also wondering what Microsoft's involvement is in this. I presume they will be managing the wireless stuff for Starbucks, but that seems to be a huge burden that I wonder what the payback would be.
posted by Frank McPherson 1:03 PM |
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It looks like Palmax is finding more resellers of their Pocket PC products. infoSync is reporting that the LynkUs PocketPC in the works. One thing I am concerned about is price. What we need are lower priced Pocket PCs, not more higher priced "deluxe" models. OTOH, Pocket PCs with integrated PC Card slots can easily be used with wireless LANS which is being predicted as the "hot" technology for 2001.
I wonder if more people besides Dale have received their Palmax units yet?
posted by Frank McPherson 12:59 PM |
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Pocket PC Thoughts Jason has some enticing news regarding a call he received from Compaq regarding a fix for the iPAQ dust problems, and that the Stowaway keyboard may appear the end of this month or next month. My guess is that the keyboard will be make an appearance at CES.
posted by Frank McPherson 10:55 PM |
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Casio is giving a $100 rebate for EM-500s between January 1, 2001 and March 31, 2001. After the rebate the price of the EM-500 can be $399.
posted by Frank McPherson 10:37 PM |
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CNET's Steve Fox claims 2001 is the year Pocket PC catches Palm. You know what? I don't care!
posted by Frank McPherson 3:59 PM |
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PDA Square is a new web community site focused on PDAs.
posted by Frank McPherson 1:20 PM |
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PDASquare[To the Land of Pocket PC] This is a very comprehensive article on switching from Palm to Pocket PC, written by a former Palm user.
posted by Frank McPherson 12:50 PM |
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If you are a caseaholic then don't check out Levenger's E-Case.
posted by Frank McPherson 11:46 PM |
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MSDN Online Training - Building Applications for Microsoft Windows CE with Visual Basic 6.0 This might be interesting if you want to learn how to program for Windows CE using Visual Basic. There are pointers on this page for web based and instructor led training.
posted by Frank McPherson 11:41 PM |
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iPAQ H3600 Hardware Design Specifications: "The iPAQ H3600 has two stereo outputs. The first uses the 3.5mm diameter stereo phone jack; the second line out is to the expansion pack connector." How about an iPAQ Pocket PC boom box?
posted by Frank McPherson 11:22 PM |
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iPAQ H3600 Hardware Design Specifications This site contains all the gory details of how the Compaq iPAQ is designed.
posted by Frank McPherson 11:16 PM |
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Future/Betas Alex Kac continues to evolve Pocket Informant, and it is turning a very good alternative to the built-in Pocket PC PIM applications.
posted by Frank McPherson 10:03 PM |
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Thanks to everyone who reads this log and has bought a copy of my book. You can read some more of my comments on the past year at my original web log.
posted by Frank McPherson 5:44 PM |
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ABQjournal: Duke City Pastor Guides Pocket PCs' Lost Souls Dale Coffing has made the news!
posted by Frank McPherson 1:08 PM |
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2000: The year PDAs grew up "PDA unit shipments nearly doubled to 9.4 million in 2000 compared to 5.1 million the previous year, according to Gartner Group. And both Gartner and IDC expect PDA shipments to be in the 30-million range worldwide by 2004." I was into PDAs before PDAs were cool.
posted by Frank McPherson 6:41 PM |
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DataPlay -- universal recording media Do we need another storage format?
posted by Frank McPherson 1:32 PM |
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Pocket PC Thoughts has a link to a Bluetooth CF Card from Peak Development that is supposed to be available January 1, 2001. Now, the question becomes, what can we use that with? The page also says there will be a Bluetooth PC card available in the same time frame. The question that I have is, does this Bluetooth card act and look like a network card to PCs, a serial connection, or something entirely new? If it acts like a network or serial connection then I think ActiveSync will work with it right now. If it is something new we wouldn't be able to sync. I did not find any information on how one could buy any of these cards.
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