>A single parts data to be reviewed in the field might be as long as 10,000
>bytes and a user might look up as many as 15 parts at one time.
Seems like the first thing your client needs to do is reduce the 10K bytes
to something manageable on a small device. That's a lot of stuff, too much
for a small screen device of any kind, and too much for quick, clean
wireless transmission IMHO. If they're willing to pay for the wireless
time, the only kind of device that I think makes sense is something that
has at least a 1/4 VGA screen as in a (horrors!) WinCE device or a small
laptop like the Toshiba Libretto. Something that might make more sense
would be a Nokia 1000i smart phone. but they're expensive. Any screen
smaller than that, with that much data, and that many items, just doesn't
make sense.
There was a thread on the PQA forum last week about compression technology.
That might be applicable.
Regards,
Steve Mann
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