PostPC Computing

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PostPC Computing

• Palm Rapid Prototyping II

2003/4
Prof. Scott Kirkpatrick, HUJI Amnon Dekel, Bezalel
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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

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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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Mobile Communication

• Example Beam me
• PDA Toolkit has an easy to implement IR based
  service

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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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Homework

• Create a Palm App with IR communications
• Email it to amnoid_at_cs.huji.ac.il
• Publish it to postPC discussion group
• news.cs.huji.ac.il ? local.course.postPC