So Hawke, I'm curious if you've looked at the pdQ. My understanding is that
you want to telnet to a UNIX box from a easy to carry device. I believe
you could get this with the pdQ right now. You would:
1) Go to your SprintPCS store and buy one for $799 (I know it's not cheap
yet..., but less than $10K)
2) Get data and voice service at about $70/month for 300 minutes of voice
and data connect time
3) Install PalmTelnet on it
4) Pull up the antenna, run PalmTelnet, enter the host name and log in.
It is bigger and more expensive than a Palm VII, but it is one device that
does what I think your asking for.
If you have looked at the pdQ (or anyone else) are there specific reasons
why it won't work for you?
To be honest here, I work on the pdQ (email stuff in particular) and I'd
like to see it succeed, but I'm try very hard to be impartial and shed
light on the whole technology arena so I hope this is not taken as a
shameless plug. In a previous posting I suggested that Palm VII is more
like a Miata or a Z3, elegant, small and nimble, and the pdQ is more like
an SUV, takes a bit to get it going, but you can move a lot of data with it
and sort of go anywhere on the Internet.
LL
At 10:54 PM 11/4/99 -0700, Hawke wrote:
>The users aren't able to innovate where needed though. Obviously I don't
>really understand what type of wireless technology is being used(yet - I'll
>rectify that soon enough). But if the web browser and email (and other) apps
>are able to resolve IP addresses, and receive (and send) data to machines that
>only understand that kind of data (IP), I find it very unlikely that it's
>"impossible" to acheive the tasks I've described. Putting together a
>hodge-podge of other gear to do it, seems like more of an "easy way out",
>without trying to fully utilize and push the current technology (of the palml,
>not other tech) to it's optimal use. (Forgive my ramble). And I am too
>stubborn
>to just shrug my shoulders and give up on this. Well, since no one here
>seems to
>know of an already existing util. Anyone even ever have the remotest interest
>in trying to pursue this goal?
