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keithb
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Anyone hear any news about wireless LAN
springboards under development? Symbol
recently released their 1740SPT, but
I imagine a Visor with a wireless LAN
card would be more flexible and cheaper.
Any thoughts/rumours?

KeithB

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mjordan
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No, I have no clue about this but I guess wireless LAN connection would be way too cool!

(On the other hand: what would you use it for?)

Matthias

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jhealy
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what would you use an ethernet springboard for? hooking it up to my dsl line and surfin' the net, of course!

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bhammons1
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I have read that they will be coming out with a Bluetooth module next summer. . .

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mpmarsee
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And for those of us who are completely naive, what is Bluetooth?

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handsprung
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check out http://www.bluetooth.com

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ganoe
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Looks like Widcomm (http://www.widcomm.com/) is doing the Bluetooth module. Fall 2000 was the timeframe I saw.

It'd be nice if Symbol would do an IEEE 802.11 Springboard like in their 1740SPT.

Craig

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uradu
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Considering that I spend 70% to 80% of my waking hours around work, a wireless LAN module would be much more useful than Palm VII style wireless. That way I can be constantly on-line: in meetings, at lunch, on the john (don't even tell me you haven't used the Pilot there!). I could send and receive email in real time, have ICQ always with me, etc.

In many companies, the trend is to assume that every employee has a PC, so newsletters, announcements etc. are disseminated more and more electronically. However, not all employees are desk-bound with a PC. There are the loading dock workers, maintenance people, mail clerks, managers constantly wizzing between meetings etc. These are cut off from electronic info. If each carried a wireless Visor, complete electronic information dissemination could become a reality. Given a $200 or less wireless module and a $150 basic Visor, that amounts to something just about any company would spend on a PC-less eomployee.

Paul Radu

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