03-18-2003, 03:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Gomadic Wireless Internet Cables (Phone to PDA)
Gomadic, or "the Pocket PC cable company" as I like to think of them, has come out with a new series of cables that allow you to take a mobile phone and use it as a modem for your Pocket PC. For those of you without a Bluetooth phone and Bluetooth PDA, this is an awesome solution. I used a cable solution similar to this last year, and it worked really well. Not terribly fast mind you, but good enough for email and mobile Web sites.
Gomadic has cables to bridge the Dell Axim to a huge variety of phones: Audiovox, Kyocera, Nextel, Motoralla, Sanyo, Samsung, and others. Go check out the complete list for more. And if you have another type of PDA, Gomadic probably has a cable for you. And they even have cables to bridge a mobile phone to a laptop (something that I'm very interested in doing myself). [Affiliate]
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03-18-2003, 03:36 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 5
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Besides BlueTooth, nowadays, most of mobile phones have IrDA, it's a free alternative to the cable solution.
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03-18-2003, 03:48 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,264
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Wish they had something for Nokia.
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03-18-2003, 03:49 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 383
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"Wireless Internet Cables".
Am I the only one who finds this funny? :lol:
/jizmo
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03-18-2003, 03:51 PM
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Executive Editor
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Originally Posted by jizmo
Am I the only one who finds this funny?
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No, I thought it was funny too - I was going to re-write the title, but that's the name of their product, so... :wink:
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03-18-2003, 03:52 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by Kerphis
Besides BlueTooth, nowadays, most of mobile phones have IrDA, it's a free alternative to the cable solution.
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The vast majority of North American cell phones in use do not have IR - for some reason, Nokia and the other OEMs have been disabling IR on their phones here for years (and trying to find a CDMA phone with IR a year go? Impossible!). Most newer phones have it enabled now though.
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03-18-2003, 03:54 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 30
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HAHA
That is pretty funny about the cables.
The phone itself has to have web access though right?
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03-18-2003, 04:02 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Re: HAHA
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Originally Posted by jk
The phone itself has to have web access though right?
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You'd have to have data services enabled on the account, but you don't need GPRS. You'd be using your phone to dial into your ISP like a modem.
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03-18-2003, 04:22 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 468
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Nice. They carry most all of the current Sanyo phones except mine, the 4900.
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03-18-2003, 04:22 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 278
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I bought my cable from www.thesupplynet.com and they too have cables for many different products. I have found it virtually impossible to find a CDMA phone with either IR or BT. I use the cable to connect my ipaq to my cel phone. While the speed is a little slow it is perfect to grab email and the occassional news surf. (That is until my PPCPE makes it across the border and shows up here in Canada, and I get it unlocked!)
I pay a $5 a month data access charge on my account and then time on-line for data gets deducted from my regular minutes plan.
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