You can get old, second hand smartphones powered by windows Mobile from friends or relatives who upgraded to new devices (my case), and you have more than that (otherwise interesting) device (the one you refer to): USB connection, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS on board, microSD storage, color LCD and keyboard, sound, one or two LED indicators.
Or, as in your case, using an already existing Windows Mobile PocketPC. If you can design your application using Mosync, then it can be easily ported on other modern devices (having WiFi) as iPhone, Android, Maemo, Symbian, WebOS, Java, etc... You need only one device to develop and test your applications. Having these devices everywhere (the number will increase dramatically for smartphones and also tablets), then you can use smaller microcontrollers, with a minimal API for applications targeted at your clients. Just thoughts... Vasi On May 11, 2:34 pm, hubidrei <[email protected]> wrote: > since a good smartphone is too expensive, > there will be another cheap alternative for using a regular PC > soonhttp://hackaday.com/2011/05/06/miniature-pc-packs-a-big-punch/ > at the moment i am working on wireless home automation using an old > windows mobile PPC ( Acer N50) which has an Pic18F4550 on the USB Host > Port. The wireless functions uses RF70b´s. > In the end this will cost a lot less than a system with android > smartphone. > > On May 10, 8:19 pm, "funlw65(Vasi)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sometimes a smartphone is more appropriate in data acquisition and > > home automation than a PC and Google knows it very well: > > >http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/05/10/google-launches-android-open-access... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" 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/jallib?hl=en.
