http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/ Engadget Comments for Pocket IR modem adds 56k to your Palm III http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/
As an organizer it was nothing more than a black&white rolodex. Back then, Wifi wasn't out and cellular phones with these functions cost well over $900.

I can't understand who'd bother connecting this thing to the POTS internet when it was designed specifically to sync with the desktop to get updates. ]]>Feb 15th 2008 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/
I fail to see how this is news.]]>Feb 16th 2008 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/
http://www.amazon.com/Psion-56kTravelModemUS-56k-Travel-Modem/dp/tech-data/B00004RKHF

Psion 56k travel modem, same as mine.]]>Feb 16th 2008 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/
my closet wants it's dust back.]]>Feb 15th 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/nuff said]]>Feb 15th 2008 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/
The problem with dial-up is that we don't have any wired land-line service - otherwise, it'd be fine (albeit slow), too.]]>Feb 15th 2008 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/
Even if this wasn't old... in a world of Bluetooth, Wifi and GSM networks, who in their right mind would spend $150 on something like this?]]>Feb 15th 2008 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Hmm let me look in my pocket.. ah! a Nokia with an infra-red port.... that'll do the job; even better it has a battery as well !]]>Feb 20th 2008 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 15th 2008 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/

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They are nearly completely useless. WiFi hot spots are just about everywhere right now. You could spend that 150$ on that instead. A T-Mobile contract would cost less for the whole year.

No matter what way you look at it, you would have to spend at least 10$ a month just get the dial-up service to connect to the Internet. More, if it was your own private network with some dedicated land lines for incoming connections. Not to mention, that the vast majority of all businesses and private networks use VPN for remote clients and not modem banks anymore.

I don't think hotels will support a modem going out from them anymore either. Last I checked most of them went 100% digital on the phones (A PABX system that can damage older modem equipment; requires special couplers/suppressors) and offered an Ethernet connection right in the room. The hotel would just advise you to use their Internet instead, as they make more money that way.

An interesting piece of technology, just a decade too late for the market and the supporting technology and services have long since disappeared and become obsolete as well.]]>Feb 15th 2008 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/pocket-ir-modem-adds-56k-to-your-palm-iii/Feb 16th 2008 12:19AM