For 'phones Bluetooth is pretty much a "must have" because of ear pieces, GPS integration, and in-car speaker systems which wont work well with the line of sight requirement IR has.
imho, given that Android already has 802.11 & BT I can't see there being a lot of call for another communication technology. Al. acton wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
