Aximsite Reviews the iGo Pitch Duo

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.aximsite.com/reviews/index.php?qid=171&frommostrecent=yes' target='_blank'>http://www.aximsite.com/reviews/ind...mmostrecent=yes</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Do you want to quit carrying around a laptop when you give presentations? This is one cool product that will allow you to make your presentations 100% wireless. Utilizing Bluetooth technology, the Pitch Duo is the 1st wireless presenter available for Handhelds and Smart Phones. I tested this product using an iPaq h5550 with built in Bluetooth. If I still have the unit when and if Dell integrates Bluetooth, I will test with an Axim also. I have never been a Bluetooth fan until I started to see some functionality that can make life easier like this product..."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/igo1.gif" />

[orinoco]

Hello Jason:


I have had the Pitch Duo for about 3 months now. I got it while I still had my T-Mobile XDA. It worked really well with the USB sync n' charge cable that I have.

I now own the XDAII, and I have been unable to make this work through Bluetooth. It works just as well with the USB cable, but I can't get it to work via BT. I keep getting the "unable to communicate with device" and "cannot open COM port" error messages.

I have given up on iGo's tech support folks, who have really only tested it with iPaqs. The folks there have not been able to explain to me the reason for this nonfunctionality.

I found the instruction manual and documentation to be poor and uninformative. I like the device and still use it, but find it frustrating that I cannot take advantage of the BT feature.

Overall, great device, but I'd like to hear about others that have tried to use it via BT.

Cheers,

Fernando

[Pat Logsdon]

I now own the XDAII, and I have been unable to make this work through Bluetooth. It works just as well with the USB cable, but I can't get it to work via BT. I keep getting the "unable to communicate with device" and "cannot open COM port" error messages.
Are you using the Widcomm stack? I've heard that there are quite a few compatability problems with the default Microsoft bluetooth stack...

[orinoco]

Yes, I also tried it with the Widcomm stack, which I temporarily installed on my XDAII. It did not work as well. I exchanged multiple emails with iGo's tech staff, but they were clueless. It is annoying to deal with a tech staff person that knows less than you do about the problem (and I am not even close to being an expert).

Don't get me wrong; I like the Pitch Duo, but to taunt it as if BT functionality is a selling point, requires a clarification of what devices it has been successfully tested with. I was told very clearly that it has only been tested with the iPaq and the Loox.

I'll keep trying to make it work, and hopefully I'll have good news to report soon.

Cheers,

Fernando

[Jason Dunn]

That's really unfortunate - it's their responsibility to test their product with as many devices as possible.

So who said Bluetooth was easy again? :roll:

[DubWireless]

I'll keep trying to make it work, and hopefully I'll have good news to report soon.

have you tried Pocket PC Bluetooth Tools, initially developed so people could get their BT GPS working with the XDAII - but is being expanded to enhance it's basic Bluetooth implementaion - info on a new version (http://www.ppcw.net/index.php?itemid=1747) was posted on PPCW.net at the weekend...

I also find Microsoft's current Bluetooth implemetation for Windows Mobile very poor compared to the usability, features and interoperability provided by the likes of Widcomm :(

[DubWireless]

I have never been a Bluetooth fan until I started to see some functionality that can make life easier like this product...

been using a great implementation for presenting with Bluetooth control, although still requires the Laptop, on the Mac with a a Sony Ericsson cell phones / Palm PDA (and soon Symbian Smartphone) - the Salling Clicker (http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Clicker/index.html) provides an interface to control many Mac applications from a Bluetooth Phone/PDA including PowerPoint and Keynote

I now run any presentations with a SE handset or Palm OS and the Salling Clicker - even the slide's notes are sent to the device screen and you get a timer plus a lot of control over the presentation software - right from your hand.

let's hope when XP Service Pack 2 comes out with it's enhanced Bluetooth capabilities integrated into the OS that innovative applications like the Salling Clicker will appear for Pocket PC / Windows users... and us who also use a Mac aren't the only ones with such a great built-in Bluetooth Implementation ;)

there are some apps that allow you to interact with a Windows PC but they currently offer basic functionality compared to the likes of the Salling Clicker, for example:

Windows Mobile Smartphone:
Powerpoint Remote 2004 (http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/rutten_sven/index-Dateien/Page354.htm) - control PowerPoint presentations and Media Player Remote (beta) (http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/rutten_sven/index-Dateien/Page650.htm) - control Windows Media player from your Window's Mobile Smartphone with built in Bluetooth (currently the HTC Voyager handset running 2003 e.g. Orange E200)

Sony Ericsson cell phone:
Christersson PcControl (http://www.christersson.org/index.php?page=software_pccontrol) - where you can set up apps to run (like PowerPoint viewer) and WinAmp and control them from the phone with 'mouse like' emulation

Symbian Smartphone devices:
Bemused (http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~ashley/bemused/) which can use WinAmp and Windows Media Player as well as a special PowerPoint viewer implementation

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[EricMCarson]

This really blows Margi System's Presenter-to-Go solution out of the water. Not only does it eliminate that crazy IR remote (which somehow never seems to work past about 2 feet with my 3870, but I can only use it with PDAs that have a CF slot (the SD version of Presenter-to-Go works only with Palm PDAs...?).

The BT solution speeds up the presentation, continues to give me access to my notes, and gives me a remote that can I use from anywhere without wondering if the "clicker" is actually going to work. Congratulations on development of a decent device that works great with all my BT iPaqs!

[orinoco]

Thanks to DubWireless for pointing me to the BT patch. It fixed it and works beautifully.

Fernando

[wigglesworth]

Hi everyone, this is for those of you who are using the bluetooth presenter. I have a couple of questions for you

1- Can you store your presentation directly on the i-go module? If yes how much memory do they give you?

2- can you store your presentation on a CF of Secure Digital Card? and is there any lag time from your pocketpc to the i-go module?

3- How is sound supported, or where does sound come from if you have an audio or video clip inserted in your powerpoint presentation?

Thank you for your responces
Brian