Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 27th Jan 2005 09:37 UTC
After playing around with my brand new infrared v90 modem for my PDAs (expect a review soon), it got me thinking...
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Your idea sounds like a winner, but for more than just PDAs.
1) You should a USB 2.0 (or 1.1 at minimum) port. Then, the manufacturer of the device can sell cables that connect from the USB port of the device directly to your PDAs interface and reduce the IR speed bottleneck. You could have cables that are all USB on one end, but Dell, Palm, HP, etc on the other. Heck, it should be able to work with the existing USB sync cables that people already have.
2) Not all laptops have all the connectivity that your 12'' powerbook has. If a USB to USB cable were provided, you could connect this to another other laptop (or desktop for that matter) to get connected.
It would be simple enough to have a CD with drivers/applications for Win32, PocketPC, Palm, Symbian, etc.
3) Lastly, since you covered all wireless spectrums other that cellular, why not add in EDGE/1xRTT/EVDO? Then, the user just needs to activate it with the cellular provider and have another communications method.
Granted, the extras may not fit the $99 budget, but consider this: I can almost guarantee that *if* you can fit all of these functions into one device, and *if* it sells and people are interested, someone would be willing to license it and would make it smaller, faster, and with better battery life. Of course, unless you already patented your idea, you just lost out on all your royalties.