[ale] Cells phones and Java and *Nix

[Frank S. Glass]

Quoting Bjorn Dittmer-Roche <bjorn at sccs.swarthmore.edu>:

> 

> I want some sort of connection between my computer and the phone. I COULD
> get internet conectivity from the phone and use that to connect to my
> computer, but I'd rather be able to have them talk to each other directly
> with some sort of TCP/IP. Basically, I'd like to write some software that
> turns my phone into a remote control for some software I've written on my
> desktop.
> 
> I am right that bluetooth can do this sort of thing, right?
> 

Yes.  I have an Ericsson T39m that has Bluetooth.  I was able to use a
Linux program to add a menu via Bluetooth to the phone and control a music
stream via xmms.  After a _lot_ of effort to get it to work I found that the
Bluetooth range is so small that I couldn't walk out in the hall and use
the phone as a remote!  I'm now waiting for a cell phone with 802.11.


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Frank S. Glass
Holos Software, Inc.
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