On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Virgil Vergara wrote:
> > An article in the june issue of DoCoMo's Technical Journal seems to imply
> > that it's possible to use the IR port for data communications in addition to
> > the standard exchange of objects. It's not clear whether they mean the
> ...
> I know of one friend who has been accessing his email with his Palm Pilot by
> linking his Palm and Cellular together via IR port.
>
> That I can tell you it is possible using a Palm to Cellular. I don't how it
> should be done with a Laptop.
It's the same with a laptop, if the laptop has an IR port. This sort
of I/R is really just a wireless serial interface, and works just as
a serial cable between the two devices would. The phone looks like a
standard analogue modem to the computer.
cjs
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Received on Tue Sep 4 06:02:47 2001