Re: [NTLK] Device candidate for einstein?..

From: James Nichols (smilr_at_mac.com)
Date: Wed Oct 06 2004 - 16:50:36 PDT


Response time!

On Oct 6, 2004, at 11:16 AM, MKow1234_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> CF cards are still cheaper than SD cards, although SD prices are
> coming down.
> So the CF slot should probably be dedicated to storage. No REAL need
> for
> Bluetooth on a PDA. Whatever you have on there is probably synced on
> your main PC
> anyway. I guess it would be nice for conveniently printing docs, but
> again,
> you have the desktop for that.
>
> What's my point? I'd recommend using the CF slot for a microdrive
> (You could
> carry a ton of .MPEGs and .MP3s), and I'd save the SD slot for the
> Bluetooth/Wi-Fi, if necessary.
> Of course, I'd carry mostly games, songs, and video clips. []|:O)
>

Hmm - I hadn't known that wifi had been implemented via SD cards - a
quick google search proved me very, very wrong. Given that SD cards to
provide wifi access DO exist, I have to agree completely - CF
microdrive for storage.

Bluetooth? It's built in on this thing, and the one reason I REALLY
would want it is if I ever pick up a bluetooth enabled cell-phone,
share it's GPRS connection to the Newtstein (Newton, Einstein,
Frankenstein etc.) so I could get email and stock quotes, weather
forecasts, light web-surfing etc. wherever I could get a cel-phone
signal.

As for my pompousness regarding landscape mode, I realize that it isn't
that novel a concept, even in the pocketPC world - for THAT reason,
touting it alongside other huge features, giving it equal weight with
built in bluetooth and a 1.3 megapixel camera, seems a bit much IMO.
J Tyler Nichols

as for Radio via wifi cards - no dice. Wifi cards operate at 2.4
(5.something for 802.11a) Ghz, you're FM radio for public broadcasting
goes from what? 88 to 108 Mhz? Even if you could alter the antenna on a
wifi card to pick up that frequency, it would be meaningless - purely
analogue data, when the card is expecting binary representation of
data.

We'd be better off hacking a cheap tiny fm radio onto the audio in line
of a dongle - think about it, NIC plug with this little plastic bobble
on the end, draws power from the NIC port, tiny tuning dial on the
outside (or hacked to be controlled via the serial lines on the NIC
port) hmmm this is sounding pretty good actually...

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