It all depends on what you want to do with wireless data transfer - i.e. sharing or swapping videos and photos. These are going to be very large in the next 6-18 months with 3 megapixel cameraphones and soon 5 to 8megapixels.
Even today some Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones continue to support old IrDA - at 1Mpbs. All new phones from NTT Docomo, Softbank, KDDI, Sharp, Casio, Kyocera, etc support the faster 4Mpbs IrSimple protocol. That is also complemented with a whole range of portable photo printers: http://acton-acton.blogspot.com/2008/09/printing-from-your-phone.html I have seen demos of phone-to-phone sharing of photos and user generated videos using IrSimple - it is fast! less than 1 sec. Let me know if you want to see the live demo - I can bring it to one of the dev meetings! I know some Japanese companies are trying to get in touch with the Andriod product team to include IrSimple into their spec. Anyone can help to do that? regards, -acton On Oct 1, 1:32 am, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The HTC spec sheet > (http://www.htc.com/www/product/g1/specification.html) makes no mention > of it so I would assume that it's not going to be there initially. > > IR ports have died off with the increase in popularity of Bluetooth > because of bluetooths advantage of not needing a line-of-sight link > between the two devices, so I would go out on a limb and say that I > think it's unlikely IR will ever make it into a Android device. > > Al. > > sai wrote: > > I have been trying to find on the android home page, I see Blutooth > > and wireless support but there is no mention of the infrared port, any > > ideas if it is supported now or may be later ? > > > Thanks > > Sai > > -- > Al Sutton > > W:www.alsutton.com > B: alsutton.wordpress.com > T: twitter.com/alsutton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
