The next IR Step on the Newton would be IrComm, so you could connect your Newton
with a mobile phone or other PDAs.
Heiko
Jonathan Wise wrote:
>
> Well last night I sent a file from my WinXP laptop to my Newton using
> the Obex transport demo. Because it was the demo I couldn't save it or
> anything, but it worked, and the Newton properly advertises itself. So,
> while it needs some tweaking it's pretty much there so I'm not going to
> bother to re-invent the wheel.
>
> What I'm thinking now, is something like I saw in some weird Xerox movie
> about their concepts for a PDA: You walk up to a device and get your
> data.
> What if we used our 802.11b networks to do a "send and receive" of
> notes. If connected to a network, the Newton could look for another peer
> and send it's notes (eventually pkgs) to the other device, and then
> receive notes from the other device. Kind of like some sort of
> peer-to-peer app. Or does e-mail meet all those needs? (I haven't got my
> WaveLAN card yet, but I have a rockin' 802.11b network)
>
> I'm open to ideas. This'll be the first time I'm not in school for...
> ever so I want to do something!!
>
> Jonathan
>
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