The books I have on palm programming say you need hardware attached to the palm to allow for TCP/IP communications, but nothing about using TCP/IP over IR.. I know from programming IR on the palms, its very difficult to establish communications with any device, particularly because the only high level libraries in the Palms are is support of Obex, which is like HTTP, its one-shot not a persistent connection.. Anything else requires custom programming to talk tot eh low level IR, so you would need libraries on the Handspring that support connection to the Nokia Modem directly, but even with this its most likely the software would only support its own uses of the Nokia and couldn't be used by other applications on the Palm, because the library would have to remain resident to handle the synchronizing of communications between the devices.. Also note that the line of sight for infared is about 15 degrees, so your nokia modem would have to be nearly right next to the Handspring.. It takes a lot of tries to re-sync the communications once they drop.. I would suggest just getting the palm cellphone attachment or a hardware modem, preferably not the Handspring's own modems (it requires use of a communications portal company which charges a lot of money for access). I also would probably suggest dropping the Handspring for a Palm since many Handsprings, if not all, support a optimized older version of the PalmOS that didn't support many things like bluetooth and Java. Palm's are roughly equivalent to 286's (I mean they must be multiprogrammed, multi-tasking is not possible.. Maybe I should compare them to the old MacOS) and the Ipaq's are like Pentiums.. I think the reason Hansprings/Palm's are still so popular is the ease of use, but the underlying technology is not remarkable, so don't expect wonders.. The reason the manufacturers are hanging onto it with much interest and faked-marketing-hyped-excitement is its easy to use, cheap to make, and depends heaavily on proprietary hardware attachments, its a perfect market for non-interoperable monopolized-prone gadgets.. Whereas Windows is a fairly non-interoperable system running usually on very interoperable hardware.. Yeah get and Ipaq and put linux on it, but then we'd still have to wait around until someone developed a linux based embedded os for the Nokia modem.. I guess you are stuck.. Unless of course Nokia and Handspring have a special technology which was designed to use these features, and it may cost you about as much as a cellphone attachement for your handspring.
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