Agreed. Also, the BellSouth Mobitex network that the Palm VII uses _is_ a
2-way, radio-based, pager network. It's used in the RIM Blackberry 950
pagers. It's insanely expensive ($0.15-0.35/k) and not too fast, but it
allows connectionless push-pull data exchange that is beautiful. The Palm
VII is constrained by the designers, not by the infrastructure.
At 12:33 PM 4/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>But, you only need a poke with a dozen bytes or two (a URL?). The device
>can then bring up the higher rate data connection in a managed way.
>
>Or said another way: we agree, the pager architecture isn't sufficient
>today - it isn't the one. Ideally we'd have something that has two RF
>channels; one that is pager-like for pushes and one that can transfer bulk
>data.
>
>LL
>
>At 02:40 PM 4/19/00 -0500, Don Hyde wrote:
>>Pagers use a lot of tricks to keep their recieve power down. That includes
>>trading off bandwidth efficiency for low power. As slow as the data path in
>>the PalmVII is, it offers orders of magnitude more bandwidth than pagers.
>
>
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