Registered: Nov 1999
Location: washington, dc
Posts: 82

Qualcomm advertises a connection from their phones to Palm III (and V's).

since they run the same OS, is there a way to convert the Palm connecting pins to the Visor connecting pins?

Thanks

Registered: Jan 2000
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Posts: 1

Good question- I've got a Qualcomm 860 phone and a Visor (I used to have a palmIII).

There are several reasons why this is unlikely ...
(1) the Visor connector is based on USB not standard serial - however there are devices that will convert to standard serial from USB.

(2) Qualcomm made the PDQ phone ($700) which is basically an 860 thin phone plus a licenced palm pilot. They were very reluctant to sell the palm connection kit (in fact it came off the market for several months) for the thin phone - because they would rather sell you an over priced palm pilot/phone vs. a $100 cable/software.

(3) I've used the palm III connected to my Qualcomm 860 and it's not that great of a solution - it would be far better if it used Infrared or Bluetooth to communicate without wires. Also the digital cellular service I use is regional so it only works fairly close to home - I could connect at 14.4 to the Internet so the Advantgo synchronization of ~2mb of data took about 45 minutes.

the Browser software from qualcomm is disappointing -

The cables make the whole thing very geekey looking - overall for my use it didn't seem worth it.

I'd rather have a Springboard module in my Visor that does it all behind the scenes - totally with out wires.

If you really really want to do this - you could try using the Visor serial cradle and the Qualcom serial datacable for PC's - which sells from about $100 - although I'm not sure if the serial cradle grabs power from the host (normally a PC)