[CUBE] GSM & IrDA

[Rick Rodman]

I tried using IrDA with Palm back in the OS 9 days (on a 6200, if you want
to know).  Forget it - it's slow as death.  Maximum speed on IR is 19.2kb/s.
FWIH, Bluetooth isn't much faster.

Get the Keyspan Dual Serial USB adapter.  It works perfectly under Mac OS X
(get drivers from Keyspan's web site).  You'll need a mac-serial-to-9-pin
adapter.  Plug all the cables together and play!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Riba" <riba at hi.hinet.hr>
To: "Cube List" <Cube at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 17:37
Subject: [CUBE] GSM & IrDA


> Ok, i bought a new mobile phone that could replace the basic
> functionality of my Palm so that I don't have to drag both of them
> around when traveling.
>
> Hell, i knew that I should get one of the phones supported by iSync,
> but i somehow dislike Ericsson products and don't need the bluetooth
> and the rest of the techno buzzwords built in.
>
> Anyway, I bumped into Alcatel 715, and liked it immediately. there is
> no official Mac support, but it imports & exports vCal and vCard
> formats so it should be fairly easy to keep it synched, especially with
> current data from the Palm.
>
> I got the PC software and the serial cradle which is useless of course.
> Last few days I've spent some time researching my options to connect
> this thing to a Mac. In the process I learned that the perfectly good
> IR port on my Lombard is not supported/recognized in OS X, which is
> damn frustrating. I hate Apple for things like these. How hard was it
> to make it work (and it works on Pismo!). As far as I see it, there was
> absolutely nothing wrong with IrDA to replace it with a
> bluetooth....anyway...I figured that maybe I should get an USB to IrDA
> adapter since the Cube doesn't have IrDA anyway so I could us it with
> both machines. I managed to find one such adapter that works on Mac
> under OS X on www.digitalnoma.de, but the ironic thing is that it costs
> the same as bluetooth dongle! :))) Oh well...
>
> I will probably get that adapter at some point and try to use OS 9 on
> Lombard in the meantime, but that would be pretty useless since I want
> to sync my Address Book on OS X. I've taken a brief look at available
> GSM third party software on Versiontracker, there are some interesting
> bits here (OnSync, released today, GSM remote, SIM express). The point
> of this message is to ask for advice from experienced people who can
> recommend a working combination of hardware/third party software so
> that I don't have to wander around trying to figure out things that
> someone else might have already figured :)
>
>
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