BT is also not an option due to high power consumption. (I'm looking at the datasheet for a Blue Radios Serial Radio modem EVB: advertises low power consumption, 120 mA Tx, 40 mA Rx--yikes!) And am I right that the Palm One BT SDIO card (the one that I paid $199. for a while back) is no longer available?
What I'd like to see is some mfg likeSocketIO to come out with a RS-232 SDIO card. Would solve all these connector arguments. Now that more PPCs are coming out with SD slots instead of CF, this might happen. "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well it looks like it's official, Palm's complete lineup of currently shipping Palms all have USB only. This is very bad news for people like me. I have customers calling up saying they can't find a compatible Palm because my product needs a serial port. Looks like Palm will put me out of business unless I can find a solution. > > I have toyed around with BT some. Not a good option as it's pretty slow compared to the wired connection. (the one byte req, one byte resp has a lot of overhead, I'm guessing, when over BT) Cost is another issue since my products use non-standard baud rates, I cannot use an 'off the shelf' BT to serial converter. > > Has anyone come up with an affordable USB periferal to RS232 adapter? I briefly looked into this a while ago and the chipsets were very expensive. > > Thanks, > Mike > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
