PDA Shipments in 2006 reached 17.7 million units

PDA Shipments in 2006 reached 17.7 million units

The analyst firm Gartner published a report according to which the quantity supplied to the world market PDA in 2006 totaled 17.7 million units. This figure is 18.4 percent higher than last year. In this case, the category PDA company classifies the device, weighing less than 454 g, focused mainly on work with data, rather than conventional cellular services, and intended, as a rule, to work with two hands (eg, BlackBerry 87xx, Motorola Q and Nokia E61). But such devices like the Treo 750 and BlackBerry 81xx include Gartner to smartphones, and this statistic does not include. The company's analysts say that in 2006 60 percent of all PDA market has a feature phone. In 2005, this opportunity was provided with only 47 percent of such devices. Additionally, Gartner research showed that in 2006 49 percent of all PDA were purchased by enterprises. The company Research In Motion, according to the report, continues to lead the market PDA, though among its products is now becoming more and more smartphones, starting with the release in September 2006 BlackBerry Pearl. The number of PDA from RIM was in 2006, according to Gartner, 3,510,927 units, up 10 percent over last year. The market share occupied by these products from RIM, is 19.8 percent. Shipments of PDA of Palm fell 29 percent compared with last year. Data from other suppliers PDA can be found in the table.

Jaws

... It goes on to crack a shark, rush on anybody, but only about adapters Bluetooth wireless technology to handheld computers. Incidentally, this is the most fashionable at the time of issue. Hit of the season. Global bestseller. Let's look at the current, already available to us, the use of Bluetooth, and to applications of tomorrow. Especially because tomorrow begins today. Hence, the wait for the future remains rosy for long ...

Honestly now

Surveying the current state of things, with some sadness that you notice - the technology of wireless high-frequency communication is not yet very accessible. The cost of adapters is high (for the most inexpensive models greatly surpasses one hundred dollars), but because a complete solution for private, personal use remains the eternal question of how the world - to be or not to be. However, it all depends on the thickness of the purse. Young student, hardly accumulated on a budget Palm with a monochrome screen, a prospect to get a Bluetooth module is not smiles. Solid, good earning, middle-aged gentleman to spend four or five hundred for a set of Bluetooth adapters are quite capable of ... What can I say? Youth has one not very nice feature - it passes quickly. The fact that in his early years seem unsupportable, tomorrow will be the prankish trifle. Yes, and Bluetooth technology develops by leaps and bounds. Soon it will happen the same thing happened with electronic memory - it will inevitably fall in price ... The high price of Bluetooth adapters significant, but perhaps their only drawback. It is true that comparison. Except for a new Bluetooth (this standard, said a few years) from the wireless PC peripheral devices we only have an infrared port - IrDA. Infrared serial port - direct descendant of the usual two-wire asynchronous serial port, the oldest of all. His main drawback - low speed data transmission - is inherited from the COM-port. For transmission over a single wire (the second grounding wire) data together in packages - a sequence of bits into which the first and last included special control bits. These bits are used to indicate the beginning and end of packet transmission, so the port does not require clock signal and a separate wire for it (so the port is called asynchronous). The downside of this simplicity - the bag has a small amount, but the transfer is carried out consistently, package by package. Receiving port receives the first service pack bits and transferred to the reception mode information. After receiving the entire packet, the receiving port receives the latest service pack and stop bit reception. Then everything is repeated. The same data transmission technology - packet sequence incorporating the official bits - used in IrDA. It is clear that it does not allow to achieve high rates of exchange (the COM-port and IrDA - 115,2 bps). But the high rate of conventional IrDA (there is a high-speed version of the infrared port, but he has not received proper distribution) are not available, affects another drawback of optical wireless communications - susceptibility to interference. For reliable communication window transceivers (LED) infrared ports of two devices must be located at 10-20 cm is strictly opposite to each other. In the way of the light beam should not be any obstacles. Hindrance may be a ray of sunlight or occasional glare from the mirror. In short, the hassle of missing ... Finally, the third major drawback of infrared port - at the same time connection can be established only between two devices.Networked dozen mobile devices through IrDA impossible (although it is theoretically possible to receive an information signal to several devices - if you can arrange them in the optical axis of the infrared beam). All of these defects have been remedied in Bluetooth. Communication takes place in a microwave radio 2.4 - 2.4835 GHz transceiver (transceiver) low power (milliwatts account goes on - as in radio-equipped toys). Communication range does not exceed 100 meters (for example - the toy radio range of 27 MHz at a power output of 100 milliwatts have an effective range of communication in the same 100 meters), but usually lacking, and 10 meters. The fact that Bluetooth, as well as an infrared port, intended for communication between a PC and peripherals - printers, digital cameras and so on, or between mobile devices - cell phones or handheld computers, or between "big" computer, phone or PDA. In any case, talking about hundred meters is not necessary. This note makes sense, because until recently the spread of the standard Bluetooth (and, let's add a competing standard, Air Port by Apple) in our country is hampered by objections to the supervisory bodies. It was assumed that high-frequency communications can make radio interference into the work of industrial and other radio equipment. In this case, cited arguments such as the presence of interference from CB radios receive television broadcasts. But the connection CB (the same range of civilian - Citizen Band) is on the border (between short-and ultrashort-wave range) 27 MHz, and the permissible transmitter power is 5 watts! Bluetooth radio band with nothing does not intersect, and the power is so insignificant that it can not be compared even with the power of the emitted radio signal very safe in this respect, cell phone ... That is why, incidentally, looks so attractive in the application of Bluetooth headsets handsfree - and the hands are free, and no wires, and safety are fully complied with ... Yet - as this new "Pribluda (slovechko!) work? What she knows? First, before you spend money on the purchase adapter set (and a Bluetooth module for, say, your Pocket PC to purchase does not make sense as it makes no sense to buy a portable radio CB - if we continue this "radioanalogiyu" - at least until the Bluetooth has not received widespread distribution), we should find out what problems we're going with a Bluetooth address. Secondly, you should really look at things - to combine the wireless network a modern laptop and an old dot matrix printer can only theoretically and is almost impossible (and unnecessary!) In practice. Third, do not hurt to calculate costs and relate them even with the potential, but - profitably. Funny to throw to the winds of almost four hundred dollars, to be able to play online toy (if they generally exist) on a pair monochrome Palm m100. Bluetooth - is the ability to automatically and instantaneously organization samokonfiguriruyuscheysya wireless network. And therefore the greatest benefit from the new equipment will be in the first place, the owners of laptops. Portable personal computer - the thing in itself, able in most cases operate autonomously without any connection whatsoever devices. In practical terms, the main advantage of the laptop is not available in his battery, which provides work for two to three hours without connecting to the mains, and almost complete freedom from cable clutter on the desk.In fact, how often do we open his laptop in the field? So whether we need a computer away from the workplace or at home? Most often we use a laptop as a working machine - for word processing and internet connection. But the road to take a Pocket PC (who he is, of course) because it is smaller, lighter, from the built-in battery lasts longer, and tasks that are assigned to it in a way that does not require a full-featured notebook computer (if you Of course, not Lenin in flood - to write treatises on the knee). Thus, providing laptop adapter, Bluetooth, we have the opportunity to get rid of the printer cable, sync cable to the handheld computer from the network cable, and eventually even the tail of the computer mouse (in the announcements of computer companies are equipped with radio controllers have already appeared). Leaving only the mains cable and telephone wire ... All this will require considerable investments - peripherals must also be supplemented by Interface Bluetooth. But there are options. For example - purchase module hub, splitter with integrated transceiver Bluetooth, which can connect multiple peripherals. Or - to use an external Bluetooth module to connect via USB. Such a device makes it possible without too much trouble to equip wireless high-speed interface of desktop personal car, not getting into her insides. Incidentally, today issued a Bluetooth module for computing have different designs. They come in the form of flash memory cards - MMC / SD or CF, in the form of cards of standard PC card, in the form of plug-ins to connect to the USB port and a PCI card for integration into personal computers.

Palm m515 with a Bluetooth-card format Secure Digital

The most interesting is the module in the form of flash memory cards. With a simple and inexpensive adapter PC card - CF (or MMC, depending on the card format), the module can be connected to a laptop, and without an adapter - to the PDA. That is, a pair of identical modules provides wireless high-speed synchronization between laptop and PDA. A detection in the vicinity of a pocket typewriter her brother to the current adapter, Bluetooth - instant network connections and her ... Same goes for the laptop. It takes the signal from any laptop or PDA with a module Bluetooth. Network connection is established immediately. Another obvious application modules of the wireless Bluetooth - synchronizing Pocket PC and notebook (or, I think, is inappropriate here - only "and") with a cell phone. This, however, the topic of a large, interesting and requires a separate discussion. Details in the next article, "Jaws 2", but something can be said now. Any owner of a cell phone (and they seem to be no less than PC owners, and much more than users of handheld devices) suspects that combine cell phone and computer in any way possible. But not all phones have an infrared port, and not all computers (dozhili!) - serial COM-port. And the cable for connecting the phone to the serial port of your computer - is not at all. And in general, too much fuss - look for the cable, spend money on it, to suffer with the connection. And the result? Download new ring tones? Funny ... Bluetooth adapters are available for almost all phone models, starting with the most inexpensive. With their help, phone, a PDA and a laptop (or desktop) are practically inseparable.Create a phone book directly into Outlook, it simultaneously synchronize with a PDA and a phone, immediately call the selected number or connect to the internet via cell phone. And, with any device - even a PDA, even with a laptop ... Yet details about this should talk some other time. In the meantime, try to look at the day tomorrow. What joy in store for us technology Bluetooth? ..

Rainbow tomorrow

Bluetooth uses much more than I have mentioned in this article. One of them gives me as a user laptop and handheld computer, rest. Although I do not know - how this possibility has become reality. Do not know yet ... I'm not too attracted a wireless connection to the Internet. Job Service GPRS still not established, to apply it in practice (it is only fair to admit that I simply do not have the phone with support GPRS). And not that it's probably cheap - not cheaper than wired. In a word - not yet happened. Now, if to do so, and access was wireless, and pay for it would have the same dime as a traditional dial-up. Manilovism clean water ... If no Bluetooth ... That's what a sweet picture drawn in my imagination spoiled. I lie on your couch like oriental sultan. In the hands - pocket machine (and even though my true lamb "Beshka" - Casio BE-300). On-screen typewriter having web-page. I look at them lazily. Then run a cartoon about a sweet chudilku Masyanya. Then listen to the music MP3. Then something else. The point is that the Internet connection in the usual way - via a laptop and built in his modem connected to an outlet telephone network. Bilateral exchanges between the CPC and the notebook (again - or desktop, what people are rich) is carried out by a pair of modules Bluetooth, one of which is connected to a large, and the other to a small computer ... Is this possible right now, not in a hypothetical tomorrow? And why not? Such a system Air Port in the Macintosh operating very successfully, even (though there is a Pocket PC speech does not go, or connect your desktop PC and laptop, or a pair of desktop, notebook or a couple). What is Bluetooth is worse? Okay, pull yourself together as soon acquire this technology, so check it ... In the meantime, I will give publicity his other dream - a multi-function portable media center. Imagine the same laptop hard drive is stored wow selection of music tracks in MP3 format and video to MPEG4 (and what there is - on my laptop has it all). Take in the hands of the CCP and ... No does not grab a Bluetooth audio and video files. A - plays them the same way as when you connect to the Internet. Media content can be rewritten in the buffer memory in small amounts, appears on the screen of your Pocket PC. The buffer is cleared and takes the next portion of information. Due to the high rate of exchange of Bluetooth delays in playing no. And the memory of most handheld computer to anything. And save-convert does not need anything. Everything happens "on the fly, in real time ... It is true that a miracle? Modest to a handheld machine turns into a multi-media terminal ... If it is not only music and movies? And if game programs? And if you do not just play? Remember the idea of ​​a public network diskless PCs and sginuvshuyu in a swift whirlwind of technological progress? And here it is, this same idea, but in a new guise. Pocket PC can be an ideal wireless terminals to access the resources of a PC. It is with Bluetooth PDA becomes a full extension of a large computer, not just the viewer for delayed viewing and player simple programs (also incompatible with the PC). Here's where to start off a genuine industry of handheld machines ... They say dreaming is not harmful. And I include the full power of your imagination, imagine a digital camera, or (for a walk, so walk!) Camera interface Bluetooth ...Memory a little? Yes, why should we memory? In the shoulder bag we have is a laptop, which writes to the hard drive all in camera. And no tapes and no flash memory card ... Although, why a laptop? Maybe it's a special drive adapter Bluetooth, which is capable of recording at a distance of any information, such as those portable drives with autonomous power supply and built-in reader for flash memory cards that are sold today in Moscow's shops inexplicably exorbitant prices? .. By the way, you do not know - whether embed Bluetooth in gubozakatochnye cars? It looks like a contender for this technique is already ;-) authors, translation:

Jaws - 2

Our life is full of paradoxes. I, for example, have all the time to describe the latest, most advanced models of cellular phones, although my heart belongs to old-fashioned and modest capabilities Ericsson A2628. He was so nice in your hand - not too big and not too small. Almost nothing special is able, but in terms of telephone communication - well done and clever. In short, I got used to it badly. But want something unusual. Around the same people. Namely - the young girl whose imagination can be hit or their outstanding articles, or any trifle expensive, pointing to the refined tastes of the owner and his financial well-being. A statistical fact is just missing (burgher stomach, for unknown reasons to me among young girls is not quoted), because it has to fend minim ... Let's talk about phones. More precisely - the unwinding with supersonic speed Bluetooth wireless technology with regard to mobile telephony. Bluetooth module integrated into phones latest models gives the usual "mobile phone" hitherto unseen possibilities. A plug adapter will pour new wine into old bottles - to breathe new content in the broken phone time, even in my budget "Eric", from which, frankly, it's time to get rid. But this is unlikely to happen any time soon. The excuse will bring a couple navyazshih platitudes - "horses in midstream is not me" and "an old friend is better than two new ones (although in fact need more money and do not cling to the old toys).

Hands, who fries, and something to say about this Exler

Bluetooth in the translation is called "Blue Tooth". Why tooth than he was at fault, if he called them gay, I do not know. However, the joy that the Russian, the Germans - death. Unusual for a combination of our ear (and only for some unusual language - that and look vyplyunesh him, trying to correctly pronounce a "th") in English, they say, sounds quite nice ... Name - a unique, something to be ironic. Everything else is very, very seriously. Before the grave that we can talk about a real revolution - both in the personal computer industry and the technology of cellular communications. Bluetooth - the wireless standard radio high frequency range of 2,4 - 2, 4835 GHz. Transmitter power is low - about 100 milliwatts. Maximum range - up to 100 meters (average 10 meters). Average exchange rate - about 720 kb / c plus or minus a certain number of kilobytes in the different implementations Bluetooth (maximum - about a half megabytes per second). In phones, Bluetooth adapters can perform different functions - from the arrangement based on these headsets covert, to the operational link with phone pocket and personal computers. First, let's talk about headsets ... Device for conducting telephone conversations at a distance from the device without the need to bring a fairly powerful transmitter to his ear, certainly useful. Driving a car without a headset cell phone can even be dangerous, as distracting the driver from driving. The headset also keeps your hands free - so called handsfree. Structurally, the headset handsfree (another, less precise, but the Russian name - headset concealed carry, though admittedly not too hidden) is a miniature earphone (speaker) is worn or loose-leaf type (with or without a holder) with a fortified by him or on cable headset microphone. If a microphone is attached to the phone itself, as structural elements apply flexible or rigid bracket. If the microphone is mounted on a cable connection, its position is chosen so that the receiving part of the electret microphone is in close proximity to the user's lips. Technology headsets more than a hundred years (actually the same as most telephone service).It is curious that one of the most effective solutions - laringofon or microphone, fastened at the throat user - in mobile telephony is not applied at all. Firstly, laringofon easily attached only by a helmet (a tank or aircraft). Secondly, the tone of voice when using laringofona few changes (although this is unlikely to become the decisive reason for rejecting its use). Whatever it was, while the headset is one drawback - the wire that it connects to the telephone. Meanwhile, some phones, such as "youth communicator" Motorola V100, use the headset as the primary and only means of voice communication. In V100 simply has no built-in microphone or speaker. Must be content with only a headset ...

Motorola v100

It Gets Worse? Why, in this wire ... If you never ever use your player walkman, trust me on word - connecting headphones and a tape (or disk based on flash memory) player posting thing is very inconvenient. Thin connecting cable entangled in clothing, and the sudden movement of the head pulls off with ear pads (especially in miniature their performance - in the form of loose-constructs). In the heat of the posting sticks. In the cold of a wooden ... No, it is inconvenient. It is for this reason, the Bluetooth headset is rapidly gaining popularity, although their cost may exceed wired counterpart in ten, twenty or more times. Benefits headsets Bluetooth, for example, the latest model produced by BTH 100A Acoustek Innovation Technology (Guess once - where he lives, this company ... right, in Taiwan), and yet that power high-frequency transceiver immeasurably less than the capacity of cellular transceiver phone. In this figure the headset almost a thousand times less than the phones (milliwatts against Watts). Hence, experimentally unconfirmed risk of cerebral high-frequency radio waves is reduced to zero ... "What I soar brains in a microwave oven?" - Said my friend Alex Exler. And I totally agree with this fun and talented person. But security is not all. The accurate transmission of acoustic signal from a Bluetooth headset on the order of magnitude higher than the wired headset. A digital interface. Convert the digital signal into an acoustic made directly to the adapter. Decreases the length of the conductors, eliminate any possible interference and crosstalk ... Not without reason Bluetooth modules have penetrated into another area of ​​complex electronics - home to the world of musical instrument class Hi-Fi. Now, along with models of cordless phones that use ultrashort-wave radio band, and an infrared link, there were headphones Bluetooth. Presumably, these newcomers will soon supplant the market with their predecessors - with the highest quality sound transmission, long range, miniaturized and autonomous ... By the way - a Bluetooth headset can not do without power. In the aforementioned headset BTH 100A uses a miniature lithium-Ion battery, charging that the headset has a connector for an external unit. Of course, this does not add to ease of use headsets - wired device battery is not needed. But we also charges the battery of the phone and not grumble? Get used to the battery and the headset. The corpus BTH 100A (it resembles a flat cigar, elegant and easy, which is attached to the bow to put on the ear) is built-in microphone. As befits a high-quality headset, it provides full duplex communication - can simultaneously speak and listen (simplex communication used in radio CB - there to listen and speak in turn, operating power button transmission on the microphone). To purchase a wireless headset, a Bluetooth module is not equipping the phone itself, not the slightest sense that increases the cost of the solution ... But it is the most venial of all the possible shortcomings Bluetooth! God be with her, with this wonderful headset. I may never it did not use it. But the plug-in Bluetooth - a real miracle.With it, even my old man A2628 becomes spirited steed phone ... And what about phones with built-in modem?

Only with Bluetooth can grasp the immensity

These applications are difficult to consider separately ... The fact that the Bluetooth adapter integrates cell phone to any computer equipped with the same interface. That is literally integrates phone and computer in one. And, no matter what kind of computer - desktop, laptop or PDA. Bluetooth for all is one, he is extraordinarily intelligent and with all the difficulties to cope independently (if at the same time we will be able to cope with the provision of software support). The most common case - you have a cheap phone with a built-in modem and plug-in Bluetooth. And in the other pocket - Pocket PC (any model with a card slot) with a card Bluetooth. Actually, nothing else is required. If necessary, you can always rearrange the wireless communication module of the handheld computer into a laptop or desktop - through a card adapter ... But we are still interested in a PDA. With some regret (but not maliciously, come from the same tribe) is compelled to note that the system "phone + PDA 'go up to 350-400 dollars, but what are the chances ... Address book budget phone - it's quite modest by opportunities database. Name, phone number, yes. In fields more expensive models, but the screen is still tiny. To view all need to use scrolling. On a large screen of your Pocket PC contact information to view a much more comfortable. For example, a good targeted bases of graphs have to remember anniversaries - birthdays, or any other events. It is easy to find a man who is not a sin to congratulate the upcoming holiday. Choose a name, click on the screen pen. And the phone begins to dial in to the subscriber. Kindly talk to ... And what is there to give an e-mail, eternal and still a pipe dream of every owner of a Pocket PC? There are no problems. If the phone has a modem, just run on the PDA email program and select the "get mail". The operation did not take long and does not require large cash expenditures, even if your phone does not support the exchange of protocol packet data GPRS (though not while receiving almost exclusively on a cellular channel, and only using wireless access to e-mail server as needed) . If your disposal does not modest Palm, a luxury Pocket PC, then via Bluetooth and you can wander over the WAN, and their own ringtones for your phone write out of one's own head. Equipment by means of multimedia Pocket PC is that allows you to run a real audio editor, to write in it's own melody and surpass it in the phone memory. (A hypothetical proposal, because my own experience in this area, I have not, but sincerely believe that for a computer running Windows CE nothing is impossible). Finally, sync your phone and desktop computer ... Always looked at this possibility with a secret envy. I have somewhere to say that in my laptop no serial port. A cheap "Eric" is able to synchronize with your computer - with a special cable - only through the port COM. (Blee-and-in ", said to my nine-year-daughter, risking to go in the corner - oh, this Masyanya, all that know her). Bluetooth eliminates this problem, although the pleasure adds quite a bit. Yet to take full advantage of the wireless interface should have a decent modern phone with a modem ... Phones with built-in organizer, and quite bulky phone book synchronization with the PC and update the data of both.That is scheduled to MS Outlook (and other compatible programs such as Lotus Organizer, one of the best on this day, organizers), the events will be rewritten in the calendar, cell phone address data from the Contacts folder - in the phone book. Plus the same ringtones, downloaded from the Internet or written by yourself. Well, smart phones with advanced multimedia features - with built-in MP3 player, especially with digital cameras - a Bluetooth receive an extra degree of freedom. How not add to the smartphone memory (yes, not all smartphones allows it), no matter how squeezed files MP3, and space for multimedia data is still lacking. Wireless connectivity allows you to quickly change a set of tracks in the phone memory or to overwrite the captured footage on a laptop hard drive. Not for nothing that the newest models of smartphones are equipped with a Bluetooth adapter nominally ... Say what you like, and all the pleasures of the use of Bluetooth has to be evaluated only on the eye. Most of us have Bluetooth adapters yet ... But whether this upset? Remember the rule of transition to a new operating system? Do not rush. Do not hurry to get rid of the old errors, replacing them with new ones. Let the developers will release the first service pack, then ventured ... Roughly the same with Bluetooth. We have heard the very first, still damp with the heat from the heat, the device. Tomorrow will come the products of mass, waste, devoid of most of the flaws still largely ad implementations ... However, this concerns mainly the computer modules. How strange, but the phone Bluetooth adapters are available with respect to long for many users stopped being difficult to access exotic. We in Russia? No, they have in the west ... But what, in principle, the difference? The authors, translation:

A pen-ta - here they are!

I do not know whether to blame in the hunt to change places, or is the basic desire for a little shiny gadgets (say, every adult was once a child, although we have not checked), but all the time peeping on a portable computing. Well have a laptop, well - a pocket computer. But even better to have it both, plus all sorts of prichindaly allegedly facilitating the work ("allegedly" - because no work on my knees really can not be a single self-indulgence). Let's talk specifically about prichindalah. Of electronic devices designed to expand the use of laptop computers - handheld and those that are more ... The fact that the "pack" digital assistant under the very outset, to approach the display case with laptops meaning seems to be no. And the shop still pulls. That had to find something curious - so as not to lose their zest for life (and the incentive to earn good money, because all of these toys are even very few).

Dream of repeaters

Young people today ushlaya and technically very competent. On the exams are so many things that the poor teacher has sadly come to terms - still write off. In the course of going electronic notebooks, digital voice recorders, PDAs, cell phones and even digital cameras. (I was recently told about a young amateur photographer, who brought on his father's school exam camera, the display is trying to blow the essay on "Katherine - a ray of light in the darkness"). Of the same breed - electronic cheat sheets - and the thing about which would be nice to once again remind you. This is a portable text scanner C-Pen 600MX. It is designed as a plastic token with an LCD screen on the side surface, is able to scan the text line by line, how to recognize it, to translate into computer format, and simultaneously translated from Russian into English and vice versa. Moreover, the number of dictionaries much more - that proinstalliruete, then will have.

C-Pen 600MX

Pen scanner sold long ago and not very successfully. The reason - the high cost ($ 260) and, probably, is not quite obvious applications of this thing. A handle, among other things, great. Quite frankly - a miracle pen. About the scanning and recognition of already written, rewritten. Less talk about organizational talent C-Pen. A scanner that in some cases can replace a PDA, especially when dimensions of the device and a long (about four weeks) the battery life. The first and most simple application of C-Pen (not counting the actual scanning) - address book. Capacity programs from C-Address 250 contacts, each of which can fill in name, last name, phone number, home address or email address. It is possible to overtake the information from MS Outlook synchronization C-Pen with a PC. Or to suffer a bit and take information directly from business card (the same scanner). By the way, as a scanner C-Pen works so-so. In the sense - do not read graphics and a slightly bungle with reversing (white letters on a black or colored background - a unique feature built-in light bulbs). But the pen and is not intended for scanning schedules. This crib, electronic "perediratel" library tomes, which under normal scanner does not give out (surprisingly, to what we are librarian-fisted). But "raspoznavalka and translator working perfectly. Using C-Pen can read any overseas newspaper, with only a very rough knowledge of English - say, at the level of system messages Windows (this is life itself will teach). Another new feature - a portable digitizer. Using the pen can write on paper, though not "free" style, as close as possible to a set of coded symbols in the memory stick. Epic canvas, thus, of course, do not carve, but put in an electronic document ornate signature - easily.Or make a small comment. Or anything else - as suggests the fantasy and the harsh dictates the need. Finally, the screen C-Pen with a certain dexterity and good eyesight can read the book. Facilities are not so hot, but if such a function is, why not use it? Memory C-Pen to 6 megabytes is enough for storing 2,000 scanned pages of text. Ah, yes pen ... For me personally, the acquisition of C-Pen is problematic for one sad reason. In my laptop has no serial or infrared ports. And in the PDA - no infra-red (the most unforgivable flaw Casio BE-300). So that connect C-Pen is simply not what. Unless, of course, does not adapt to a laptop computer external power adapter.

Infrared port

No, it is also not new. Adapters IrDA produced and sold a long time ago. With regard to notebooks, they are of two types - connected to the serial COM-port and connected to the bus USB (for desktop machines available modules - "comb", connected to the connector on the motherboard and fitted with an infrared transceiver - LED, which should be strengthened on the outside of the computer Corps). Since the COM-port on my computer is missing, had to choose an adapter for the bus USB. Describe any particular model is hardly worth all the adapters are about the same (for me - Tekram IR-210U). Plastic head with integrated transceivers, the base, tightly let into the adapter cable USB. Everything is quite ordinary. Installation under Windows XP went without problems. True, we had to use the CD as a Windows distribution is the only driver for the adapter, IR-210 for serial port. If I had a COM-port, we could try to install a standard driver, which seems to be rising without any problems. But cope and USB. Knowledgeable people warned - infrared adapter for the USB bus sometimes naughty. It creates a virtual COM-port, and this leads to resource conflicts. I do not know, yet I have no conflicts befall. All the works on time, all synchronized, rewrites, pumps and so on. Moreover, the communication distance - twenty centimeters - quite "cabinet." PDA and cell phone is not necessary to attach too close to the laptop and the printer can move up and the laptop itself. Sorry, very sorry that the BE-300 is not equipped with an infrared link. Synchronization Palm `a (more precisely - Sony CLIE first, even three hundredth of the model) is very funny and without connecting any wires. Honestly, though Come over to Palm. Well, take some m100, they are now quite cheap ... And spare my eyes to it, because the monochrome m100 displeychike little I can see. Books I read with difficulty, that's for sure. Although ... Is it too bold for the person writing - and even read it?

One for all

And here - a real novelty. And even some new! Is a universal keyboard that easily connects to any handheld computer (well, not much to anyone), any notebook and any desktop computer, if it belongs to the family PC. External keyboard MDC-8231 TWINkey production unknown to me Maxmars resembles compact keyboards Genius (one of them I take a long time and very pleased) ... No, perhaps, TWINkey even less. All the keys of this TWINkey merged into one unit. Separate numeric keypad not, the cursor keys are located under the press Enter, a series of function keys (they reduced size) are placed on top and nothing from the main part are not separated. In the upper part of the body are the usual lights on number three, as expected according to the established canon. In general, similar to the "notebook" keyboard - someone may not like it. But - Dimensions ... In the standard step size keyboard keys do not exceed the discharge the same in a portable keyboard Go Type! (Exclamation mark here - part of the name). Technologically, the keyboard - the usual "band" (which clearly indicates that it is relatively inexpensive).Tightly integrated cable with PS / 2 is designed to connect the keyboard to the PC ... This is the "hard" - not very good because it reduces the portability of the device. Well, okay, all normal keyboard cable is built tough and is not detached. A near full-time cable on the back of the keyboard case, there is a connector to connect the PDA. To him is short (centimeters twenty or twenty-five) cable to sync pocket machines. To connect all this economy, and - went to type texts ... What kind of handheld computers TWINkey compatible? With many "Pocket." Namely - with Palm `Amami and their clones, with the iPaq (support for other Pocket PC also announced, but as something casual, not obviously) and ... for now. In the Palm `s third and fifth series (series m1hh absent), and Sony all modifications. Apparently, the only difference is the connection cable and plug that connects to the PDA. Well, certainly in the driver support. If there are no drivers for the m100, then this keyboard would be useless - in a very short time, as the owners of machines series Palm m1xx enterprising people (and Maxmars, presumably to catch the crows will not) ... How easy to solve long-standing problem of entering the information into a PDA! It would seem - to design the controller, providing a normal keyboard and earn the appropriate connector. But somehow it does not go. That is a niche market seemed trifling, or lacking intelligence. Universal Keyboard TWINkey buy even those who still do not have the CPC for the same reason that the future car owner buys a first alarm and a set of tools. And only then - the car. The authors, translation:

Songs and Dances of typewriters on handheld Pocket PC

Will focus on the unusual devices and even surprising. Namely - the presentational complexes, the signal source which is the smallest Pocket PC family of Pocket PC. Frankly, the complex of these gizmos are not particularly draw, because look quite modest and have a very small size. Nor is complex, but only connectors - adapters or converters (and then both at once), allowing to derive a picture with a tiny PDA screen TV or even on video. Desktop Pocket PC the size of "three to four" represent? That's what it is. Go denote the names of these worthy kids - FlyJaket i3800 and CF XGA JP-606. FlyJaket manufactured by Animations Technologies, JP-606 - Jess-Link Products. Both firms in Taiwan (which, in general, it is easy to guess). About FlyJaket in the Russian computer press Much has been written, so the device is more or less we know (besides, it might and main for sale in Moscow shops). But the JP-606 until the "dark horse", although that is a multimedia extension of Pocket PC is of particular interest, since it is compatible with all Pocket PC.

Turn on the Fly, and see

FlyJaket made as worn module for PC iPaq Series 3600, 3700 and 3800 (not compatible with other typewriters physically). Multifunction device, it built its own battery (hence, FlyJaket, besides its main function may be an additional source of supply for the iPaq, or at least not discharged during the presentations of the main battery PDA), CompactFlash slot to connect the wireless adapter Bluetooth (maps memory, or any other peripherals). The set includes a miniature remote control - in the form of pens.

FlyJaket on the iPAQ

But the most important thing in FlyJaket - DB15 connector for an external monitor and S-Video for connecting to a recording video equipment, televisions, video projectors. Inserting the iPaq in FlyJaket (or vice versa - wearing FlyJaket on iPaq) and connect the supplied Y-cables Pocket PC to your TV, you can display on a large screen video, slideshows, individual photos or pre-prepared presentation of Power Point. The same is also possible when connected to a video projector - in this case, a pocket typewriter can be used for demonstrations during lectures or seminars. That is, iPaq + FlyJaket = original presentational replacement notebook, portable, inexpensive (PDA and a multimedia unit cost less than any laptop), and, thanks to remote control, easy to use. Of the diverse abilities FlyJaket underlining the potential of entering the PDA video from your VCR or TV. The signal can be digitized and stored in memory machines (by writing to the flash memory card), albeit only in PAL or NTSC, and without sound. FlyJaket i3800 expands iPaq is that it has a CompactFlash slot and built-in rechargeable battery (capacity 1400 mAh, lasts for 2 hours continuous operation). Well, the output image on the big screen with a resolution of 640x480 pixels with 16-bit color and 1024x768 pixels with 8-bit color - the main purpose of the multimedia unit, for which it stands, and acquire (add: in Moscow, at a price of around $ 300). Technology "jackets" is borrowed from the world of portable personal computers - laptops. The idea is indeed remarkable - to take on the road with only what you need: Floppy Drive CD-ROM, floppy disk, a spare battery and so on. All that can be attached to a laptop (or, rather, to a subnotebook, modular models are small), thereby increasing the road a lot and functionality of your computer. But can all this economy to leave the house, taking with him only the laptop itself - light, not burdened with extra peripherals. For Pocket PC, especially the family of Windows CE, the problem of size and mass of the road is even more acute. Palm machine easily fits in a shirt pocket, but for the Pocket PC already need some kind of bag ...And if we exclude from the basic configuration of a slot for flash memory cards and make at the expense of the body is thinner and lighter, then the Pocket PC becomes as portable as a kid and Palm. In addition, the jacket can be used not just handheld devices - memory cards, modems, network cards, hard drives format PC card, memory card, unusual for Pocket PC formats, Bluetooth and much more. Or the same FlyJaket, which in itself is worn on the pocket pc expansion module. "Jackets" were so lucky find that they gradually became almost no industry standard. PDA Casio extra batteries and PC card slots available in the form of the same worn modules (in the sense - similar, but incompatible with the iPaq). And with the proliferation of various "card" the periphery is probably waiting for the further flourishing of technology interchangeable "jackets". Conveniently the same - to change the hardware configuration pouch machines running, one-handed operation, getting the "advanced" device, the digital video recorder with more memory, the laptop presentation center. However, the success of the iPaq (which is today the biggest-selling and most popular Pocket PC) is due not only technology, "jackets", but a good design. Stylish aluminum (hence the firm), housing, excellent ergonomics, the most advanced electronic filling and, at the same time, a wide range of models - from an affordable monochrome to sverhdorogih with built-in Bluetooth. Electioneering on money and needs.

Only card

Compared with the handsome FlyJacket module JP-606 looks skromnikom. Maybe he smaller - there is no internal battery, no extra slots CompactFlash. And there can be as JP-606 itself - Card CompactFlash Type I. This is his main advantage as a presentation module to Jess-Link is compatible with all computers of the family Pocket PC, built on the processors StrongArm, SH3, and MIPS. Equipped with a JP-606 is also simpler than multi FlyJacket. There are no connectors S-Video - only a standard VGA cable to the end of a short, built in the card. And the adapter itself is made ​​as modules and Bluetooth, modems or network adapters, in the form of "fine" CompactFlash card with a thickening in the butt. Because of this, the device is extremely portable, the place for him there in any briefcase, purse or even pocket. What can a module JP-606? First of all - staff actively discharged battery PDA. Power consumption stated in 0.72 W, and the maximum current - 200 mA. Not so much for such a technique. But a pocket typewriter every milliamp counts, so more or less prolonged presentation will search outlet. The image that the adapter can display on a TV, VCR or projector has a resolution of 800x600 pixels with 16-bit color or 1024x768 with an 8-bit color. For convenience, control adapter is attached a small remote control with built-in laser pointer (range and order, and another 10 meters). This does not handle like a FlyJacket, but also a very even nothing. What module JP-606 can not? Connect to conventional television and video equipment through the input S-Video. This means that to see a slide show on home TV screen does not work, since this is only suitable TV input VGA (usually hefty and doroguschy). The same with the VCR and the analog camcorder that the VGA input does not have, by definition. But with a computer monitor will be no problem - the adapter used standard connector DB15. As for video projectors, for which JP-606, in fact, intended, then with the adapter should work for five. Both devices - and FlyJacket i3800, and CF XGA JP-606 - can be considered attractive, but an optional extension for handheld machines Pocket PC. It is hard to imagine that "hung" ultramodern computer facilities manager of any company will go to the presentation of a PDA, not a laptop. A random situation here is hardly taken into account (for random situations will fit a piece of paper, pencil and artistry "ohmuritelya priests" - the above-mentioned manager). Another thing - an attempt to surprise an interested audience to handheld machines.Yes, that is, literally, knocks off his feet - when you see an intimate small screen PDA increased the whole wall. But be that as it may, and I personally are very clever contraptions and really like. Like them and my associates - the owners (or users if the machine service) Pocket PC. For in the field of handheld computers are completely different laws than in conventional "desktops. Principles of reasonable sufficiency and appropriateness are giving way to imagination and fleeting desires. Such is life ... And here there is a crazy idea. Buy all these fintiflyushek - a couple of memory cards, mikrovinchester modules, GPS satellite navigation and cellular GSM. Ah, to walk, so walk - a Bluetooth card and now this tiny media adapter JP-606. And take a GSM cellular modulek not simple, but with the support of packet data GPRS. And (almost forgot) - plug-in digital camera. Rassovat all pockets. Get into the hands of its people's (zamechatelno!) Kasya "BE-300. Calculate the cost of improvements. And to discover that because of these budget cards "Kasia" rise in price in exactly six times. With the money I could buy two of the most expensive iPaq `a, issuance of new extensions to which I am sincerely glad, though, and I have it on the slightest of reasons. The authors, translation:

Life Wireless

During the last year the number of wires on my computer desk is gradually (but surely) falling. First, the mouse escaped from the wires, then the keyboard. The other day my turn came up to cradle sync cable to connect to cell phones - to the editor for testing Bluetooth-adapter came from company Tecom. He has allowed to organize a small "home" (or "office"?) Wireless network from a desktop PC, cell phone and PDA.

Tecom BT3030

What is Bluetooth

First a little information about the retreat that actually represents the technology of Bluetooth. This is a technology designed to replace conventional wires that carry data. For this purpose a short-range radio link that provides a wireless connection between two or more terminals (desktop computers, laptops, printers, PDAs or cell phones), allowing them to exchange information. Bluetooth operates in the frequency range from 2.402 to 2.480 GHz, the range of ISM (Industry, Scientific, Medical - industrial, scientific, and medical band), which is still almost anywhere in the world (except France and Israel) is not licensed for use for other purposes. The main advantage of Bluetooth - the convenience of workplace organization and the process works. Do not need any wires, data on all devices in the wireless network can be synchronized automatically and continuously without user intervention. Enough for all the devices are in range, and not necessarily in line of sight, as in the case of data exchange protocol IrDA (infrared light). The second advantage - the noise immunity. Bluetooth standard includes special algorithms to protect against interference from devices operating in the same frequency range. So, for example, uses a technology called "jumps in frequency (rapidly changing broadcasting frequencies) to reduce the likelihood of radio wave collisions. Almost all the existing devices are now working on versions of the standard 1.1. It provides data transmission at speeds up to 1 megabit per second at distances up to 10 (Class 2) or 100 (Class 1) meters (it is not very thick wall is not a hindrance). Now being developed versions of the standard 1.2-2.0, where the data rate will be gradually increased up to 8 Mbps. Radius - 10 feet - apparently remains unchanged. The box with the BT3030 is written that maximum data transfer rate 723 Kbps (it's just, understandably, many Bluetooth-enabled devices are limited to this speed), and that the range is 100 meters. Check it out, unfortunately, failed because the other two units that participated in the testing worked within ten meters. According to the developers, communications with the devices of Class 1 (tested with a laptop and a GPS-receiver) is kept at a distance of 90-98 meters. More details about Bluetooth and other wireless standards can be found in our library, and we turn to what is, is the adapter Tecom BT3030.

Installing and configuring the Bluetooth-module

BT3030 connects to USB-port on desktop or notebook computer, so no additional power supply - 5V are supplied to the USB it is quite enough. In the box, apart from a very compact, the size of a matchbook antennkoy module is an additional cable, which is very convenient - no need to dig "behind" in the system unit and plug in some unthinkable situation. Through this module the wire comfortably nestled on the table (although he could just as well to remain hidden behind the system unit), the benefit of its neat silver finish no worse desktop appearance. Even ennobling.However, as the user's manual, you should start not with the connecting module to the PC with the driver installation. As users only law-abiding and do it. Start the installation procedure, we wait until the program creates a virtual COM-ports (there are already 11 in the third to 13th inclusive) and restart the computer.

Bluetooth makes for a lot of COM-ports

After rebooting the PC twice finds new hardware. Have to agree with his proposal to install the drivers for it automatically (this, incidentally, also described in the manual): Insert the device itself, it turns the display power. Our wireless network is Bluetooth ready. This is reflected in the usual Windows Explorer, where there was Daddy My Bluetooth Places (similar to My Network Places). The only device that until there is - himself a desktop computer that is connected to Bluetooth-module. Here you can configure the new features that gives the user the presence of Bluetooth: Wireless COM-port, a wireless data transmission, wireless LAN, wireless connection to a modem, fax management and data synchronization. In addition, the System Tray (lower right) icon appears in Bluetooth Configuration, where you can set all the parameters of our module, and "make friends" the PC with other wireless devices: So, in the main window kofiguratsii ask the device name to identify it in the network, its accessibility (whether other devices to find our computer), the regime search for other Bluetooth-enabled devices, specify the folders to synchronize files, configure the settings of the services listed above (wireless data transmission, wireless LAN, etc.) and choose which events associated with Bluetooth-net program will be reported.

Bluetooth Settings window

Finally, the latest innovation on the PC - a new connection for LAN - Local Area Connection 2 (as it is called by default): Now you need to include in our wireless network, other Bluetooth-enabled devices. Of those near at hand is Compaq iPaq 3870 and cellular phone Ericsson R520m. There are several different ways to create a network. One of the most simple, obvious - a desktop PC, that is, Tecom-module that looks for other devices. So, turn on Bluetooth on your PDA and phone (on the iPaq click on the blue icon in the lower right corner and select "Turn radio ON", while on the phone in the Bluetooth section, select the menu item "Discoverable"). Then double-click the Bluetooth Icon in the System Tray on your PC, open the folder My Bluetooth Places. In it we go in the Entire Bluetooth Neighborhood, and the menu item "Bluetooth" choose "Search for Devices". Two devices - iPaq PocketPC and Kav (so called my phone) successfully appeared in the list. Strictly speaking, wireless ready, so only the devices to be able to exchange information and generally keen to collaborate with each other, they need to "make friends" (in English - pair, "paired").To do this, click the right mouse button on the device from the list and press the "Pair Device". With iPaq'om all happens automatically, you only need to type on the PC and the PDA is the same PIN code, which enables devices to identify each other. With the phone a bit more complicated. Ericsson did not want to take a virtual hand, which he held out a PC, but he handed it with great success. That is needed so that the phone has initiated the process of "pairing", and not vice versa.

Tick ​​- a sign of "mutual trust" devices

In general, PDA and phone has successfully made friends with a desktop computer. Now, by the way, we can examine the contents of the PC iPaq, transfer files back and forth. In practice, the relationship is kept at a distance of eight or nine meters, and with turning the corner stops. The wall, however, is thick. And not scary. For example, I completely missing the fact that you can walk with iPaq'om the room. But the most interesting features, which includes Bluetooth - a wireless synchronization via Active Sync and use the phone as a wireless modem. Let's see how they are implemented.

During data transfer Tecom BT3030 off one more indicator

Synchronization

Recall that in as a guinea used Compaq iPaq 3870 CO integrated Bluetooth-transmitter and fixed Bluetooth Manager (program for working with Bluetooth), so that the process of working with other devices, such as using a Bluetooth expansion card may vary. With the iPaq it all turned out pretty simple.

They were able to make friends

So, right click on the icon in the System Tray, the pop-up menu, select Configuration: Select the tab Local Service, double-click on the line Bluetooth Serial Port on the bottom of the list, falling window Service Properties. Here we must remember the number of COM-port, which is used by Bluetooth. This number, we need to configure Active Sync. Please note that the number of the screenshot may be different from what will your computer. Now configure the Microsoft Active Sync. Select the menu item in the Connections Settings dialog that appears, choose the same number of COM-port which was configured Bluetooth: Now produce the required settings on Compaq iPaq. Start the Bluetooth Manager, click Search, so he found a Bluetooth-enabled devices within range of the transmitter. PC is found, and the "pairing" We have already made earlier. Now we return to the list of devices in a wireless network by clicking on the icon of the PC and put a tick ActiveSync Partner. "OK." Go back to the screen Today, click Bluetooth icon in the bottom of the screen and select the "Start ActiveSync". The connection is established: Then you can perform all the actions that are available when connecting via the docking station (cradle): transfer files, synchronize your personal data, etc.

Bluetooth + GPRS = Internet

Now try using the Bluetooth-connection to connect to a desktop computer and cell phone use last as the modem for Internet access. Use for this technology, we will packet data GPRS - work through the GSM does not make sense - too slow and expensive, but the GPRS I, for example, home use on a regular basis. First, make sure that for a given phone number included service GPRS (this can be done in service support mobile operator), and secondly, to make necessary adjustments. Are all necessary for this information is available from MTS and Beeline. Now we are engaged in computer settings. Make sure Bluetooth is enabled on the phone, open the My Bluetooth Places / Entire Bluetooth Neighborhood icon and find there phone. Double-click on it in the dialog box find the Dial-up Networking. Click on the icon right mouse button, select the item Properties, then Configure. Phone number that you specify in the pop-up window may vary depending on the model of cellular handset and network operator. In this case it worked with a number * 99 # The only thing that still need to fix - the address in the DNS-server Networking>> Internet Protocol (TCP / IP)>> Properties. MTS for primary and secondary addresses are the same: 213.087.000.001, and for the "Bee Line" primary 194.067.002.114, while the secondary 194.190.195.066. Close the configuration, double-click on the icon of Dila-up Networking. A dialog box appears where you enter your login and password (they are listed on the above websites). Now click Dial and after a few seconds, the connection is established. Phone can be carried out at the other end of the room, hide in his pocket, the connection remains stable.

There kotakt!

Total

Tecom BT3030 - a very good card with a reliable, simple and convenient programmnysm software. Bluetooth otnositelno new (at least for the Russian karyney user) standard and very cool that one of the first adapter is stable and without glitches. Of course, without it you can do, but it's nice to get rid of the extra pair of wires. Telephone lies across the room and charged, while diligently carrying out a modem. Compaq iPaq lies comfortably on the couch with the owner and read the new e-mails are synchronized with a desktop PC, and at the same time download from the disc "senior fellow" of, say, MP3 files.Beauty:)

Sinezubaya family friendly

The authors, translation:

Pocket pc amateur

Purchase a "proper" PDA - half the battle. It is equally important to find a small digital assistant position in her life. Although habituation to the PDA is quite rapidly, but further toys or her short zapisochek (like - "do not forget to read this note) it is not. A pocket-sized machine - a full-fledged business tool that can do almost everything the same as the personal computer, and even more as the CCP always with me, always at hand.

Family photo album on Palm m 130

In addition to general applications, as the organizer and portable game consoles, handheld computer on the shoulder and more specialization. For a man, the pictures of active, for example, PDAs may become a universal viewer, organizer fotoknizhkoy, handy tips, say, or e-frame for an album of photos (including slides show, place the machine on your desktop, and all the young staff member - your). But you never know - with the appropriate equipment of a PDA and he becomes a camera, easy to manage, small, but not primitive. Let's look at what can pocket machine is in the field of amateur photography. (Or, specifying the problem that with all this electronic nonsense to make a photographic).

Camera plus computer

The most common case - the amateur photographer, filming ordinary film cameras, acquires a pocket computer. Sense from the CCP in combination with traditional camera a bit, but some can be found. For example, use a handheld computer for reference, "log-book - written in the notebook handheld shooting conditions (those that deserve such a record, like a macro). Since the Pocket PC every family have a text or graphical editor (or note-taking program that combines both the one and another), information which can be administered in exactly the same as on paper, drawing on the screen with a pen, like a lot of time magazine did not take . Later, in a more suitable environment, the text can be perenabrat through on-screen keyboard or the stuff on the desktop. And you can keep your handwritten notes as they are, in the form of graphic files. Finding your way in a variety of notes is easier than it might seem, since they are all saved in the machine automatically, and so they are automatically assigned a default name with the information about the date and time of recording. That is all the notes are arranged in chronological order. Another, already mentioned, the use of PDAs - as a reference. The usual program for reading electronic texts and several books on photography, injected into the memory pocket typewriter in the appropriate format, that's all the wisdom. Though for the experienced hiker, and especially the photographer will be useful not lecture in photography (or long forgotten light tables of latitude and time of year - what they are for modern cameras with automatic exposure control?), And a set of topographic maps and background information about the places where captures the photographer is not an easy ... There are some nuances. For example, a PDA is better to choose a particular model of digital camera and vice versa (in the "opposite" the dominant position still in the camera, if it is primarily a photographer, and then on "kompyuterolyubitele). The fact that a PDA, and digital cameras use removable storage media of the same type - flash memory card. But they may not be compatible with each other physically. For example, in cameras Olympus, certainly superior digital cameras, card format used by Smart Media. In addition to the camera like the card can be inserted in either player MP3, or adapter to read on a PC. In PDA memory card in this format do not apply. That is to take advantage of the CPC in conjunction with this digital camera can not be ... Much more versatile two other format flash memory card - CompactFlash and Memory Stick.The first format - CompactFlash - used in handheld computers, family Pocket PC, Handheld PC and in most older machines based operating system, Windows CE (on Psion 5mx not say intentionally, as this computer screen is not color, and to engage in photography, this feature is crucial value). The same type of memory cards used in digital cameras following manufacturers - Canon, Nikon, Minolta, Hewlett-Packard (read - Pentax), Casio and a few others.

The New Sony NR70 c digital camera

In PDA Sony CLIE (all models) used memory card format Memory Stick. They also supplied with all digital cameras Sony. Clearly, when selecting a computer to your camera (or, again, vice versa) should pay attention on the type of removable media.

Photos made by the CPC Sony NR70

A few words about the cameras. Among digital cameras average amateur class (worth 200 to $ 600) to assign anything sverhvydayuscheesya difficult. At the bottom (from cheap camera), attracted the attention of the camera PhotoSmart from Hewlett-Packard. Despite some annoying omissions (no secure front of the lens, which also supports the frame size, and the inability to use the built-in LCD display for framing - a significant minus for macro photography), these cameras (low-end models, starting with the latest 120 - th) look very good. And the images give excellent for such a cheap camera quality.

Stylish and very little IXUS

Among the cameras from Canon I like most metal, stylish and very little IXUS (any of the modifications, which differ between a multiplicity of zoom). Well, Nikon, even in Africa Nikon. Bad camera this brand does not happen. About Sony is a special subject. I do not really like computers, CLIE (recently spent a lot of time trying to establish contact monochrome S300 with PC, but won only half: on one computer turned on one another - yet). But digital cameras from Sony is impossible not to admire. What do you want - Sony is at the origins of digital photography itself. It is in this company was drafted Mavika, in the mid-eighties, when an accomplishment has been a computer with a processor 80286 and the video card VGA. Another, the last this time, detail from the world of digital photography. Why are digital cameras so expensive? Even a simple little "soap box" costs several times more expensive than analog film. The problem - in the light-sensitive sensor, the main part of any digital camera. Output of quality products at factories producing the CCD does not exceed 2%. Ninety-eight percent of marriage! I hope this explains it all ... What might be useful photographer Pocket PC? The most obvious - PDAs can be used for detailed viewing of the newly captured images. There is no dispute can view footage on normal camera display. But the convenience (and, incidentally, detail) is not on the level. Rearranging the memory card into the PDA (preferably in a Pocket PC, although the owners of Sony cameras have no choice) and run the graphics viewer, sequence, frame by frame, opening the images recorded on the card flash memory camera. Only a minute, and we routinely scan the captured image at a relatively large (a factor of three or four more than the camera display) screen PDA.

Program-viewer Resco Picture Viewer

Program, viewers, such as Microsoft Image Viewer (I use it on the Casio BE-300), can display an image of the real size and preview - a miniature. On preview assess compositional part of the picture, the true image We find the error in detail. Bad shots delete. Along the way, if the camera is then not zakapriznichaet, rename pictures. If the camera becomes "object" (most cameras only support their file names are presented in the form of a combination of numbers), we can write images in a memory device. Immediately we can change the format - with the BMP to JPEG or JPEG to TIFF. But it is better to leave the matter for later, for photo editing on the desktop (and I do not know - is there any graphics converters for handheld machines, and if so, how much work properly). Depending on your camera model content, removable memory cards in the file manager handheld computer may have a different view. In simple cameras recorded images of the root drive (flash memory card is recognized by the computer as a regular hard drive). Pocket PC with this "dump" works fine, without any kind of conflict. Apart from the obvious benefits of a handheld computer for digital photography is and the benefits obvious. Due to the fact that viewing stock photography will be done on a computer screen rather than display the camera, the stock battery capacity is enough for a much longer battery life. Color camera display - the "ravenous" consumer power ... My shy "Kaskiv (I like sheep named" Beshka ") allows you to extend the process of shooting twice. Anyway, flash memory cards end up faster than the camera's battery is discharged.

Computer plus a camera

By simple (although quite expensive) manipulation in the digital camera can be turned himself PDA. A more or less actively traded PV modules are known to me are two models - for the Palm `s and Casio. It seems that there are other devices, but to me they have not yet come across.

Fotopristavka from Kodak for Palm

About Kodak `-native" gadgets "for Palm computers, I can say that the serious impression this is not a toy. Plastic optics, low resolution and sensitivity of the sensor, a monochrome screen the host ... No, not really. There would be (or have already appeared) cameras for color Palm `s, but they still have to look at. But the photo module Casio JK-710DC - curious thing. She (or he?) Is a CF card with a sort of bomboshkoy top, which is mounted swivel lens.

Photo module from Casio

Characteristics of the camera are rather modest. Matrix of 350 thousand pixels, the sensitivity of the standard - about 100 units of ISO. Flash, of course, not. Small matter, but in a room to rent is difficult - dark. As a reticle used screen handheld machines. The shutter release program (you can program any hardware button). Focusing is not needed, since used the lens mounted on the hyperfocal distance (the pictures will be sharp from a distance, and more). In memory of the computer fit from 100 to 400 shots, which clearly points to a greater degree of compression when saving images (which is "not good"). Even at a resolution of 640x480 pixels and 16-bit color file size is not as very small.But the format is JPEG, in which the computer stores photos, has a wide range of compression. This camera image quality sacrificed for the sake of their number ... In principle, fine. Exhibition of photos of the toy is still not done. A bundle of money, which for all of these miniature charms will have to pay, in the wallet is unlikely to fit. The authors, translation: