The Palm does have a television remote application. Someone hacked
one together for it back in the Palm Personal days. I can't remember the
name of it though. It was just a conversation app that I deleted after a
couple of days.
Later,
John White
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Guluk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 10:31 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Food for thought?
I'm sitting around thinking how poorly my Palm stock has been doing
(actually COMS) and how can we get that to change and I get the idea that
Palm needs to include a full featured TV remote control system in future
releases. They already have Infra Red and a smart enough processor to learn
from other remotes.
Sound good? Silly? We need Palms to become ubiquitous to the convenience
and efficiency minded persons of the 2000's. What better way to get the Palm
more integrated into our daily lives than to have it control the little
things such as our TVs, VCRs, DVDs, etc.
I currently have several remotes and am looking to buy one of the top of the
line home cinema controllers that remarkably look like a Palm. I expect I
will spend half, or at least a quarter of the price of a Palm to gain the
benefit of a single device to control all my infra red based home devices.
The Palm could easily learn the frequencies of my remotes as some of my
remotes already do this. Then take the convenience of a stylus to change
volume, adjust the surround system and then check those deleted scenes on my
Austin Powers DVD...
How about turn on the burglar alarm or any other infrared controlled device
from the convenience of my couch. The ultimate couch potato toy....
This could spawn a whole industry creating IR relay devices that would allow
you to control everything from existing washing machines to outside lighting
systems to simple light switches that allow dimming via the Palm.
Anyway, I really think that this would help the Palm become that much more a
tool that everyone would want and that if Palm doesn't do something this
simple that their competitors will soon...
This also opens up a great resource for the software developer that can
create the coolest interface to work with the large myriad of products that
could use this technology. Maybe customizable skins that you would assign to
each device such as slide graphics for volume etc...
Just a thought....
Next, we will need the Palm to work with an AirPort card so that you can
access a decent server within 150 yards much like Apples and Lucents
wireless LAN cards. Then you could have all the volume of your home computer
accessible from the backyard patio or anywhere in your office without having
to go back to your 10 pound stationary computer.
Stephen Guluk
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