Palm Rapid Prototyping II PostPC Computing Palm Rapid Prototyping II 2003/4 Prof. Scott Kirkpatrick, HUJI Amnon Dekel, Bezalel 12/6/2018 PostPC 2002

Mobile Communication Handhelds can do a lot in your hands But- without communication they are close ended and limited Forms of communication in PDAs Serial cable: PC-PDA, PDA-PDA Infrared: PC-PDA, PDA-PDA, PDA-IR Beacon/object Radio (Bluetooth, 801.11) PC-PDA, PDA-PDA, PDA-Radio Beacon, PDA-Network 12/6/2018 PostPC 2002

Mobile Communication Applications? List Download/Install/Backup applications and Data Transfer applications and data between PDAs Update data Network based services Location based services Identity based services Profile based services etc 12/6/2018 PostPC 2002

Mobile Communication Example: Beam me PDA Toolkit has an easy to implement IR based service 12/6/2018 PostPC 2002

Mobile Communication Example: Beam me Under the button properties you choose Beam Current Record To work you must have the same app (with database) on each machine 12/6/2018 PostPC 2002

Homework Create a Palm App with IR communications Email it to amnoid@cs.huji.ac.il Publish it to postPC discussion group news.cs.huji.ac.il  local.course.postPC 12/6/2018 PostPC 2002