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Enthusiast Hacks WiFi Into Treo 650

Posted by timothy on from the good-deeds-to-punish dept.

Sammy at PalmAddict writes "Shadowmite, a Palm enthusiast has managed to hack his Palm One Treo 650 smartphone, enabling it to work with the Palm One WiFi card, despite Palm admitting the Treo was never designed to use WiFi technology. Shadowmite managed to get his hands on the Pa1m One WiFi card and modify it so that his Treo 650 could use it. The experiment was a success, and is causing quite a stir -- putting pressure on Palm One to provide support and fully support the new drivers."

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  1. Re:What? by Bill_Royle · · Score: 0, Troll

    No kidding. Worst example of moderating I've seen since... errr.. 4 articles down.

    The point is completely valid, mod grandparent up!

  2. Re:What? by mg2 · · Score: 1, Troll

    If the card was purposely not supported, and the software was set up not to allow its use, the card wasn't intended to work on the Trio.

    I guess pointing out that Palm has no responsablity to support this hack makes me a troll, but whatever.

    I don't support lying about the capabilities of the device like Palm did, but you know what, just because someone figured out how to do something they weren't supposed to, it's absurd to say that Palm should now provide support.

  3. Or.... by NickABusey · · Score: 0, Troll

    You could have read about this last Friday as posted on hack a day.

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