Regarding the recent postings covering the topic newton/gprs I post my
experience:
My Ericsson R520/T68 GSM mobile phone works fine with my Newton using a serial
ericsson data cable with a sub-d adapter (1). A dial-up (CSD) connection (9.6
kbit/s) worked right away. I managed to get the newton "dial" a GPRS-connection
on my Ericsson, but no successful connection was made...but by using a serial
setup in NIE-Settings and the appropriate AT-Commands it should be possible to
make a GPRS-connection (a german newtie reported that he made a successful GPRS
connection with his newton and siemens mobile phone (2)).
A big disadvantage of the solution above is the ugly cabling from the newton to
the cellphone that makes it (IMHO) more or less unusable. IRDA/Ircomm is not
available, and there is no driver for a bluetooth pc card (anybody ever put a
bluetooth pc-card in his newton, does the newton recognize the card??). So the
only solution that bypasses the ugly cabling would be using a PC-Card that does
GSM/GPRS:
A few years ago I used a GSM-PC-Card (Option Firstfone) with my newton (3). The
Firstfone (4) came with newton drivers and works as a single band (900MHZ) GSM
phone with a maximal data speed of 9.6 kbit/s. It is kind of slow, unreliable
and draws a hell lot of power.
Now there is a cool successor (5) of the firstfone, the globetrotter pc-card
(tri-band gsm, gprs class 10, ....): This card seems to accept the standard AT-
command-set and has a very small antenna, so it could be *the* solution the get
a small, fast, global wireless solution for the newton...I hope to be able to
test such a device one day. Another pc-card that works is the nokia card phone
2.0 (not the 1.0 version), but this card does not do GPRS.
Cam
(1) http://newton.pbk-solutions.de/produkte/kabel/adapter_seriell.htm
(2) http://groups.google.com/groups?
q=gprs+newton+siemens&hl=de&lr=&selm=3BD730E0.4161054C%40gmx.de&rnum=1
(3) http://newton.guhl.net/newton/fifo/
(4) http://eshop.option.com/scripts/product.asp?departement=22&index=1
(5) http://www.option.com/trotter.htm
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