1. Palm Rapid Prototyping II
PostPC Computing
Palm Rapid Prototyping II
2003/4
Prof. Scott Kirkpatrick, HUJI
Amnon Dekel, Bezalel
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2. 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, )
PC-PDA, PDA-PDA, PDA-Radio Beacon, PDA-Network
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3. 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
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4. Mobile Communication Example: Beam me
PDA Toolkit has an easy to implement IR based service
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5. 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
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6. Homework Create a Palm App with IR communications
it to
Publish it to postPC discussion group
news.cs.huji.ac.il  local.course.postPC
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