The best way to prolong the lifespan of a PDA is for it to act as a server. It can then play a central role in managing your activities, and share that information to your other systems, Home PC, Work PC, whatever. You would of course need internet access on the PDA, so something like UMTS is necessary. To communicate with nearby devices you can use bluetooth.
You can add storage space to the PDA, or let it get to your storage through the net. Anyone for streaming audio from your own MP3 collection?
Imagine this scenario: You go into a meeting with just your PDA. You worked on some paper on your PC, and now access it through the net and distribute it to the PDA's of your co-workers using bluetooth. This can work with todays technology! Just convince your boss to buy you all a nice ipaq/zaurus:-)
You would of course have to run linux, as it is the only OS available on PDA's that is actually capable of this. Windows CE was never designed to do this stuff.
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The best way to prolong the lifespan of a PDA is for it to act as a server. It can then play a central role in managing your activities, and share that information to your other systems, Home PC, Work PC, whatever. You would of course need internet access on the PDA, so something like UMTS is necessary. To communicate with nearby devices you can use bluetooth.
:-)
You can add storage space to the PDA, or let it get to your storage through the net. Anyone for streaming audio from your own MP3 collection?
Imagine this scenario: You go into a meeting with just your PDA. You worked on some paper on your PC, and now access it through the net and distribute it to the PDA's of your co-workers using bluetooth. This can work with todays technology! Just convince your boss to buy you all a nice ipaq/zaurus
You would of course have to run linux, as it is the only OS available on PDA's that is actually capable of this. Windows CE was never designed to do this stuff.