I'll intersperse my comments with yours omitting makes and models except where I have something specific to say... Robin Hood wrote: ><snip> >Get a new basic phone issued to me with my new service or keeping my current >non-wearable-usable cellphone. > > nice cheap option, the route I have taken in previous years when I routinely had to lug around a laptop for my job. Most modern cell phones have at the very least circuit switch data capability and many more have gprs and possibly bluetooth. nice features if you do end up dropping it into a wearable. >Buy a new phone that can be used as a phone NOW and assimilated into a >wearable collective LATER. > > I suppose this is covered by some of the more advanced phones above or by stuff like the new handspring treo 600 (my new phone in fact (nice phone, much software availible and fairly cheap in the uk)) This would be my prefered option if I was in your position (which in a way I am) (there is software availible for the treo 600 to use it as an modem, although this is not how it comes out of the box. (it also means that since it is a pretty hefty processor in its own right you could write some pretty advanced compression schemes if you are willing to go via your own proxy... On a slightly related note, I'm attempting to code some xml-rpc stuff for the treo to allow me to offload some of the processing to a system on the net.) >Buying a phone card that can plug into a wearable of some type (leaning >toward just buying a Cappucino/Mocah like this >http://www.cappuccinopc.com/mochae7042b.asp and being done with it). You CAN >recieve calls on these... right? (if not, then this option is automatically >disqualified) > The only card phone I have experience with is the nokia datacard which required the power of a pcmcia slot to operate. This means that unless it was installed in a pc it was unusable. Other manufacturers maybe slightly different. > >What is the current "state of the art" in card based cell phones? Have they >gone the way of the dodo? Are manufacturers assuming that people only want >data on their laptops these days and that everybody is going to have a >seperate phone device? Wouldn't you know it, option 3 is the one that I >really really wanna go with. > > iirc 28.8kbps using hscsd on gsm unsure about gprs capability, unsure about cdma based phones. Modern models may easily exceed this spec. >I don't particularly want another piece of hardware to keep up with and keep >charged and worry about. If I can consolidate it all into one unit that'll >be awesome. > > There are battery savers for many mobile phones that take 4 AA cells and output a voltage suitible to charge/operate the phone from. These can easily be hacked to run from external battery packs, as can car chargers. >Yes, I know I can get cellphones that browse the internet, or pocket PCs >that let me make calls, and some will take pictures while others will play >MP3s or even games... but they don't run ALL of MY applications in MY >preferred environment, and I can't MODIFY it to be the way I WANT. Harumph >indeed! > > Treo 600 is Palm OS based and as such can be coded in standard C, or even a java derivitive called waba iirc. Most of the development tools are free with the exclusion of many of the commercial applications. If you desire any specific questions answered feel from to drop me a line. >Robin >(who wants to program whilst listening to MP3s and reading his webcomics and >forums and capturing audio and video for blackma^H^H^H^H^H^H^H fun and >profit on a powerfull processor with SCADS of storage space. :) Who needs a >laptop/pda/cell phone/ipod/camcorder anyway? ) > > >-- >Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of >"subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to>Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org >Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain > > > -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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