On Friday, 24 בMarch 2006 09:11, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > If you travel around rural Asia I would imagine that either wireless > or Ethernet connections will be few and far between. > > In a pinch one can use the solution that we adopted on business trips > in the years when iPAQs were around but WiFi or broadband weren't (5 > years ago or so): we used to travel with an iPAQ and a cell phone - > anywhere you are, place the cell phone opposite the iPAQ's IR, dial > in (you need to know the right numbers, you can dial in directly to > you ISP in Israel, assuming you have the service, e.g., as a backup > to your broadband at home), and use your cell phone as a modem. The > IR link serves as a serial connection. Download your mail, compose > the replies at your leisure, another call will send the mail on its > way. I suspect it will still work today.
Today we're using bluetooth to connect the cellular to the laptop/pda - its slightly faster and you don't need to align the receivers - you can even keep the cellular in your pocket :-) -- Oded Arbel m-Wise mobile solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-9-9611212 (204) +972-54-7340014 ::.. AAAAAA - American Association Against Acronym Abuse Anonymous ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
