RE: RE: was Digital Audio/ now Ir and IRDA

[Kenneth Watt]

Tony,

You know what I mean :-)

Most folks that have a PDA, Nokia 6210 IrDA capable phone or whatever
other model couldn't give a fig about the IR capability just like the
STB situation. You're probably right though in that the reason is
two-way data comms that is the issue and the reason for the existence of
IrDA.

But then that's the problem for the minority of us, myself included,
that want to do something a little different or push the envelope of
what can actually be achieved with the technology available to us today.
Basically something new or poorly supported always comes along and bites
us on the ass!

K.

This is K. From Work! I really should be working ;-)


-----Original Message-----
From: BUTLER, Tony, FM [mailto:<a
href="/group/kat5-users/post?postID=zMM9n3vKJDImYWmvLAg1ffE4I_S9-K5t5fejKZmsrwFsXQrP5mDxvDkA29GFkMZLO4P4VpcvXgYF0g">Tony.BUTLER@r...</a>]
Sent: 10 January 2002 13:31
To: <a
href="/group/kat5-users/post?postID=c2yFJwhuIoWlxRDQb9H4jXr9H72Zs2Z5OqklTLWc1Kl5LxZ8CPa2nob8nnsu7iEndM07jbl5j7k3sSkD8aXO9vY">'kat5-users@xxxxxxx</a>'
Subject: RE: [KAT5] RE: was Digital Audio/ now Ir and IRDA

> The phone companies use IrDA and the PDA market seem to like
> it as well,
> but again it is a limited market, I mean what can you actually achieve
> with it that is of any great use to a majority of users? Bear in mind

I think you'll find that the laptop/pda/phone market is actually quite
large
:-)
I don't know the technical details of IRDa vs IR, but I suspect it is
something
to do with IR being limited for two way data comms purposes. After all,
I
can't
see that it would have been adopted 'just for the sake of it'
IrDA modems are used with PDA's and Laptops worldwide all the time....

> that Bluetooth is just around the corner and that the G3

Bluetooth has been 'just around the corner' for a number of years now.
I
think it
is finally being adopted, albiet slowly - 802.11b is somewhat of a rival
for
it and
is becoming increasingly popular - there are advantages and
disadvantages to
both,
so it may be some time before a clear winner emerges...

> services which
> demand a higher data rate than IrDA can cope with, AFAIK, so
> businesses
> will likely switch to this for wireless comms between
> laptops, PDAs etc.

Depends on what sort of 3G applications ppl come out with. If there is
a
requirement
to stream high volumes of data from phone to laptop, I'm not sure that
bluetooth will
be able to cope with that anyway.....

just my 2p worth.

T.


To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
<a
href="/group/kat5-users/post?postID=xt15ZJ8TKouoLqlVduiR7OCUn4fFvB1SUhkIXg969hForMRR6P0q0eTz-vly_cuq2lIVT__F7cNzeJlZWO8QHOzdx89dAhL30Q">kat5-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxx</a>



Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
<a href="http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/";>http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/</a>