Zire 71 wifi

Because it sounds a bit absurd. Are you talking about a 5 KB driver? Or about a patch? If the latter, then we still need the drivers, and as Mr. Combee said, it's easy to develop drivers that only will work on a single device. Now, where's your evidence? Oh, I see, you can only offer lack of evidence. My man, don't you think they must have been asked a number of times about those drivers? How many people would happily buy the card? How many would buy bluetooth-less Palms, knowing that the card is there when they feel like upgrading?

I believe you. The drivers are there. They work, and they surely are 5 KB long. Let's just hope that the martians are not mean to their new livestock. Hey Palm bashers. If you're so sure that the ship is sinking fast then why are you spending time posting here instead of shorting the stocks? You 2 can become a millionaire. But, if your wrong Pat Horne; www. RE: Of Course Gimme my TH55 any day by comparison.

TH55 is great PDA. Yet, I would never buy it. All because of Memory Stick. Anyone know how to override copy protection which may be illegal to transfer pre-programmed MMC cards to Memory stick? I am sure if you want to read more tirades on Mem stick, go to the Sony suspension of clies article, there must be many there. Some find it menial, others find it everything. I just found the whole situation to be ironic.

Well, I now have a Zire 71 and bought a Tungsten C two momnths ago. The Tungsten C is just the right device for me. I use at home and at my work a school, which is covered fully wireless. The wireless part works flawlessly. You are connected in an instant. I find that it works faster than my Zire 71, which on the contrary has a slightly better screen. What I will do with the Zire 71?

Keep it. Or give it to my daughter with a wirelees card in it : she will certainly appreciate the mp3 and photo-part. The Zire 71 is a wonderful device too, when you have no need for wireless. One more model The Tungsten C.

I would like to thank SanDisk for making wifi on the TC possible. A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. Related Articles Article Comments 56 comments The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. It's about time. Not that big a miracle, really. After all it's just for one, discontinued model Why do they even bother with this pathetic card if it's only compatable with the zire 71?!

The thing's been discontinued!! I have a TT and I want some sort of wifi compatability without having to buy some huge wifi case. There is one Palmone handheld that comes with wifi, and Sandisk is not doing anything to help matters. You gripe because the Z71 a discontinued model is getting the card, but you expect your Tungsten T to get a card?

TTRules, it's not SanDisk's fault. Trophyofgrace, I want a card for tungstens! Would you then accept that you were, erm, not right?

And what if he doesn't answer? Will you say then that you were right anyway? Just curious You, on the other hand know As a PalmSource employee, I cannot comment publically on any plans of our customers, the Palm OS licesees, which includes PalmOne, due to non-disclosure agreements as well as general business ethics.

That's all I'm going to say. As usual, you're a class act, Ben. I trust by now you've learned the truth behind the SD Bluetooth drivers. I was surprised to hear you didn't know the story already even though you only recently came over from Metrowerks. Maybe not actually working in Milpitas has shielded you from hearing about this kind of c r a p.

Anyway, I'd suggest you refrain from commenting further about this issue unless the drivers are actually issued. By the way, I hope you have made alternate career plans since leaving Metrowerks.

The upcoming quarterly statement is quite tragic and the company is probably going to start another round of layoffs. Talk to Gavin if you don't believe me. Be careful, Ben. It would be a shame to see you get burned as well. Exactly like anyone else - except for you and your contacts or magical gnomes, or tooth fairies, or little birds , of course. Surely that's because I have no insider contacts. Because, you know, it's really hard to believe in someone that, when minimally pressed to reason any one of his supposedly existing points goes into a hysterical burst of insults, postulates and unverifiable predictions that of course only further your point.

Meanwhile, like traditional honest-to-Dog future tellers, you seem unable to predict things that really do happen - like the Zire WiFi card. In fact about 3 weeks ago you were postulating again that those cards would never appear, supposedly because of problems with the SDIO form factor. Interestingly, all evidence now points to PalmSource to be the guilty ones Put that together with what Mr. Combee had to say about the difficulty of drivers development on OS 5, and the picture gets somewhat clear:.

No postulates, no predictions, I just tried to gather facts from all over the place, and the final image looks like explaining some things. I think and tell to anybody that would listen that they have dug a pretty tomb for themselves by letting the OS get to this point of And, funny thing is, I've said that before - but for entirely different reasons.

We have palm source rights to OS and have developed drivers for the OS - in its pure form. This month SanDisk is releasing Zire 71 support but has had to hack the modified files for this device to accomplish this. This is Monty Python business logic. I have told you repeatedly that Palm has the SD Bluetooth drivers, yet you prefer to believe otherwise. I even asked Ben Combee and Michael Mace to comment on the drivers on your behalf. The usually chatty Mr. Mace is suddenly silent and Mr.

Combee is not allowed to comment. You do the math. If the drivers did not exist, how could my contact have several Palms running SD Bluetooth cards flawlessly? Why has Michael Mace simply not popped up here and issued a statement saying there are no drivers? Because the drivers have been functioning for a long time. A 5 KB patch. Ultimately, people have to weigh the evidence and decide for themselves.

If enough people email Palm demanding the drivers, the update could be on their site by Monday. I think you're starting to see what I've said is the truth, but you're too embarassed to admit it. Think about it, Frosty. Bluetooth implementation is NOT rocket surgery.

Palm probably still has at least one intelligent person working for them. They built the OS. Surely even you can't believe that.

Why do I think that Palm OS has not developed those drivers? I already asked and answered myself some time ago. Note the absence of evil plots in my self-answer, though it in fact would explain a number of things - while agreeing with known facts and with what Mr. Combee for example said. Of course there's still need for external confirmation, since it's only a guess - however well-educated I think it to be.

But for starters it does not ask for blind faith, does it? Yes, I have this nasty habit of believing in what I can check Want once more? Now I'm gonna ask them if they killed JFK and why they want to sell us as livestock to the martians. And if they don't answer, then we will now for sure that they are guilty. Mace is suddenly silent Chatty? I think I've seen him here Let's say once a month. Is that chatty? If I were him, I for sure would not even try getting into this kind of stupid catfight.

You know, officially at least. Would you care to ellaborate on that, please? Because it sounds a bit absurd. Are you talking about a 5 KB driver? Or about a patch? If the latter, then we still need the drivers, and as Mr. Combee said, it's easy to develop drivers that only will work on a single device.

Now, where's your evidence? Oh, I see, you can only offer lack of evidence. My man, don't you think they must have been asked a number of times about those drivers? How many people would happily buy the card? How many would buy bluetooth-less Palms, knowing that the card is there when they feel like upgrading? I believe you. The drivers are there. They work, and they surely are 5 KB long. Let's just hope that the martians are not mean to their new livestock.

Hey Palm bashers. If you're so sure that the ship is sinking fast then why are you spending time posting here instead of shorting the stocks? You 2 can become a millionaire.

But, if your wrong Pat Horne; www. RE: Of Course Gimme my TH55 any day by comparison. TH55 is great PDA. Yet, I would never buy it. All because of Memory Stick. Anyone know how to override copy protection which may be illegal to transfer pre-programmed MMC cards to Memory stick? I am sure if you want to read more tirades on Mem stick, go to the Sony suspension of clies article, there must be many there.

Battery life may be a concern for potential customers of the Tungsten C because wireless networking connectivity can be a drain on power. However, Paul Osborne, a senior product manager for Palm, said that the Tungsten C gets more than eight hours of use on a charge even when wirelessly connecting to a network.

The Tungsten C has the same case as the Tungsten W as well as the same 1,mAh rechargeable lithium-polymer battery and keyboard. The Tungsten C may be a tougher sell because businesses don't have handhelds at the top of their purchase lists and wireless networking technology Wi-Fi is largely unproven, Slawsby said.

Osborne said that Palm has been working to improve the prospect for Wi-Fi on handhelds. The company has been working with a third-party developer to bring a voice over IP Internet Protocol program to the Tungsten C by the first half of the year and has been working with hot-spot aggregators to ensure that the device will soon be able to work on their networks.

Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read. Update: just finished using the card on my mom s Wireless Network and the speeds were more than passable with the Novarra browser. I posted to my blog, as well as looked at a few pages with and without the proxy enabled and was very pleased.

It seems faster without the proxy, but I guess that going proxy is good for some things. This browser handles secure websites, JavaScript and everything else not named Flash that I threw at it. I am impressed. It also seemed the battery life was better as I am less than three feet from the antenna now. Battery Testing. My one concern with using the SanDisk Connect Card is battery life. During heavy usage, or being further from the access point, your battery life will not be very well with the WiFi card.

The reasoning behind that being that the handheld is powering the card, and if there is not enough of a signal, then there needs to be more power given to the antenna to pick up the signal. The reverse is also true; if you are closer to the access point, then you will not suffer as bad a drop in battery life. Below, you will find what testing that I did and w hat the effects on battery life were. Because of the extreme loss in battery power, I conducted a few tests of the battery life of my PDA and the WiFi card.

Here were my observations:. That is was an observed, informal testing that seemed to be on par with what my laptop does. The range is not as well going thru buildings, but is well enough for a Starbuck s or Central Park run. Possible Improvements. If there was anything that I could say could be improved, besides power management, it would be the addition of memory to the wireless card.