01-23-2004, 04:25 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Docking Station For Your Pocket PC?
Synosphere's Bluedock is coming later this year -- and it supposedly gives your Pocket PC or other PDA the ability to connect to a full screen, keyboard, mouse, and even has USB and network ports.
What I want to know is how they've managed to get such a detailed display on that monitor when the iPAQ looks like it's soft resetting. :lol:
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01-23-2004, 04:38 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Re: Docking Station For Your Pocket PC?
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
What I want to know is how they've managed to get such a detailed display on that monitor when the iPAQ looks like it's soft resetting. :lol:
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Pay no attention to the PC behind the curtain...
- apologies to Frank Baum.
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01-23-2004, 04:41 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2004
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I especially like the full Teaser trailer, where the most useful thing is a spin around the Blue Dock.
But hey, if it comes to a fruition, I'll get that instead of my next laptop upgrade. If it doesn't, I'll keep using my Targus keyboard and imagining what's on my tiny screen without looking :wink:
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01-23-2004, 04:52 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I worry that this would be priced too high to make it worthwhile. Maybe would pay $150.
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01-23-2004, 04:55 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2002
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IVE GOT AN IDEA!!!!!
this is awesome -- sort of
why do they need a docking station at all?
shouldnt they be able to make a box that has a vga connector and usb ports on the back (for keyboard, mouse, and/or printer) and bluetooth support and then you could connect the handheld wirelessly via bluetooth?
or better yet.... make a box that plugs into any computer via usb. have a software driver in ROM within the box that can install itself on the desktop when it connects. have the drive act as a relay that hijacks the input/output layer of directx so the video out would be replaced by the bluetooth connected pocket pc. in fact, you could have the video appear in a window within the windows desktop environment. then all keyboard and mouse input could be directed to that window. that would be awsome and it could probably be in an incredibly small footprint!!!!
that would be really useful. I could then really start using my handheld as an integral part of my desktop.
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01-23-2004, 04:59 PM
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Personally, I'd just like to see a Remote Desktop server for the PPC, accessible when the PPC is in the cradle, or connected wirelessly. 
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01-23-2004, 05:05 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Full computer inside dock...
The only way they can get this thing working through the serial port of a PDA is if the device is actually a WinCE/Palm device inside the cradle...
The unit runs as a PDA in it's own right, but the program/data storage is held within the PDA, thus using PDA as a serial disk drive.
All the programs on your PDA would load into CPU card of the device to run. If it did not run in this mode, then it would be the worlds slowest computer. The SD socket is also not physically designed as a docking port, I don't know how well it would hold up to the large number of inserstions/extractions of the interface lead.
My 2c
[EDIT] The dock would also need to use the same CPU family as the host, otherwise the software loaded on the PDA would be incompatible...
[EDIT2] I miss read the information. It works through the SD card slot, not serial. This would allow a reasonable data transfer rate with the dock, but there is still an almost complete computer in the dock.
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01-23-2004, 05:14 PM
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01-23-2004, 05:46 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
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If you look towards the bottom of the picture you can see another ipaq which appears to have said screen on it
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01-23-2004, 05:46 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I came up with this idea and posted it here a year or two ago. Bummer I didn't patent the idea... 
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