March 8, 2005- A snag has developed in my site update plans. I had planned to update the journal by keeping my log on a pda and transmitting updates via phone when I arrived at a town. Well it appears that the pda won't talk to the phone. I'm not a technical genius but it seems that the problem revolves around USB peripherals. Apparently both devices are considered to be USB peripherals and they can't talk to each other directly, they need a computer intermediary. I've considered an infrared or bluetooth modem but no one will guarantee that they will work with the pda in question. Right now the best option is wifi but I can assure you that hotspots will be few and far between.
There is a company that claims to have a solution in production. The original release date was Feb. 22 but that has since been pushed back to March 22 awfully close to my departure date. Oh well, this doesn't interfere with my leaving, it just means that updates may be 3 to 4 weeks apart instead of a week to 10 days.
Posted by at March 8, 2005 05:44 PM