hi ben,
- does the PD comport external work with the IPAQ specifically:
a. The serial "sync" cable?
this is not a problem at all, works out of the box
b. bluetooth port to another machine? (I did a workshop in finland where a guy was using the macromedia director serial xtra to communicate over bluetooth with a nokia phone.)
i never tried if comport opens serial lines from a bluetooth device, if not and u dont want to code, there are bluetooth to serial converters, then its again plug and play.
The project is long term, up to three years, and so we're looking for the most creative flexibility and support for open-standards. These things will often be used in locations where the cell-network is probably going to be the extent of communication infrastructure.
in such a long term you have to take also the batterie life in account. we have an ipaq project where we after developing for a while found out that our accus are slowly getting unusable and we had to replace them - which was back then a tricky and expensive thing to do (dont knwo about current situatuion), where as if u use a mobile phone its no problem at all. i guess lithium ion accus work around 1 1/2 year well if u take care.
Any pointers/links/ideas and suggestions welcomed.
the nokia development forum http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/0,,034-821,00.html
nokia and linux: http://wiki.splitbrain.org/nokia_6630
series 60 and linux: http://www.gagravarr.org/series-60/
usb-obex howto: http://members.dodo.com.au/~joaniemrc/nokia/Nokia-6670-USB.html
python for series 60: http://www.postneo.com/postwiki/moin.cgi/PythonForSeries60
best
erich