September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
11h 23m
English
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Chapter 1. Connected Palms
“You mean you can connect these Palm things?” is the second question most people ask me when I tell them that I’m writing a book on Palm OS network programming. The first is, “I’m sorry, what is your book about?”
This book is for software developers who are comfortable with the basics of Palm OS programming and are interested in developing networking applications for the platform.
The past five years have seen incredible growth in both the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market in general, and the Palm OS Platform in particular. While any book on Palm OS programming is unlikely to appear in Oprah’s Book Club, the Palm V did appear as a Christmas Gift pick, almost two years ago.
At the beginning of 1999, there were seven Palm OS-based devices from Palm (at that time a division of 3Com), IBM, and Symbol Technologies. Today there are dozens of devices from Handspring, Sony, TRG, and many others, as well as a stream of new devices from Palm, IBM, and Symbol. These devices have rapidly expanded into the consumer, professional, and enterprise markets. And these markets still remain relatively untapped.
Wireless networking technologies are maturing. Local Area Wireless Networks (LAWNs) that cover an office or building are becoming more common in mainstream applications. The Personal Area Wireless Network (PAWN) technologies, of which Bluetooth is the most famous, are maturing rapidly.
Mobile phone and PDA technologies are converging. Qualcomm’s pdQ married a ...
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