digital PCS phones and devices? Or does Blackberry use their own
technology?
Same thing.
> You mentioned about users of Blackberry's "complain about sites they can't
use"? Is that websites or physical sites in the city? Are they complaining
there are places they can not get connected from, or just that there are
many web sites that aren't designed to work with handheld devices? If the
latter, that wouldn't apply so much for us, because we would design our
application to accommodate access by the remote devices, but the former is
very important to us. If too many of our remote locations can't get access,
then there is little reason to bother with a remote solution.
Both. Mostly they complain about web sites they can't use. Look into the
specs of what the included browser supports. For instance, my PocketPC only
does html3.2.
> Hmmm, I just had an interesting idea.... If we had some kind a basic dial
up/ppp internet access plan with one or more large ISPs such as Earth
Link/AOL/Ect., I wonder how hard it would be to connect through any
available phone line. We would need a list of access phones for each
location and/or be willing to pay the long distance charges to connect to a
centralized phone number. I wonder how hard it would be to enhance this
with the addition of a Linksys type WiFi router that could be plugged into a
handy land line that would then broadcast out to our coach so that one
wouldn't have to run some long phone line out to the parking lot. How hard
would it be to set up a situation like this for a few hours of operation?
Especially since this would be done by staff with little to no technical
skills. Interesting idea to add to the list.
*smacks hand to head*
Actually, I totally forgot about that. And we do it. we have a central 800
number with a small dial-in pool of modems here. People in the field can use
that to connect instead of using a local service provider in their area.
Sharing that connection should then be easy. The WiFi router type approach
is what I had in mind from the start. Whether that's difficult or not is a
hard one to call. I think it's easy, but we have people who can't figure out
a simple wired hub much less a wifi router.
-Kevin
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