Guest Palindrome Posted July 14, 2005 Report Posted July 14, 2005 I would love WiFi in my next phone. Sadly the M500 or C550 doesn't support it :cry: and I'm far too impatient to wait untill next year on the chance a reasonably sized future phone may support it (although with it built in to WM2005 the chances are good). So I'll have to stay with bluetooth for wireless activesync and broadband internet. Does anyone know the range of bluetooth on the M500 & C550. My E200 has a 10m range and my dongle has a 100m range. If I want to surf the net on my phone in the garden I have to do a ninja up against the outside of my home. Not ideal. :)
Guest confused and hungover Posted July 14, 2005 Report Posted July 14, 2005 i can test the range of my M500 today... i'll let you know.
Guest confused and hungover Posted July 14, 2005 Report Posted July 14, 2005 i can test the range of my M500 today... i'll let you know. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ok, that was easy to test, it seems the M500 still only has class 1 bluetooth (10m range) i think if it had class 2 bluetooth the battery would be drained in just a few minutes.
Guest Driekus Posted July 14, 2005 Report Posted July 14, 2005 (edited) I thought the HTC Magician did support SDIO, meaning you could expand it with a WIFI-SD card. It's not incorporated in it, but it does support it, right? Edited July 14, 2005 by Driekus
Guest moosery Posted July 14, 2005 Report Posted July 14, 2005 http://www.wifi-toys.com/wi-fi.php?a=articles&id=21 :)
Guest Palindrome Posted July 14, 2005 Report Posted July 14, 2005 ok, that was easy to test, it seems the M500 still only has class 1 bluetooth (10m range) i think if it had class 2 bluetooth the battery would be drained in just a few minutes. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Cheers for the test. Shame about the 10m range but I'd rather have that than having to keep my phone plugged in all the time (that would mean leaning out the window to enjoy the internet in the garden). It's also a shame the WiFi cards replace the SD memory. Would I be correct in thinking that, say on the M500, I could install Opera browser (not too keen on using the hated PIE) onto the phone memory, take out my (soon to be bought) 1Gb SD card, put in the SDIO WiFi card (I take it you can't purchase 1Gb WiFi cards) and be able to Activesync and connect to the internet without needing any extra programs that would be on my SD card (where I install everything I can)?
Guest GothTeddy Posted July 14, 2005 Report Posted July 14, 2005 The way people have been doing it is by installing anything that you need while using WiFi on either phone memory or if the WiFi card (if it has memory). Everything else goes on the normal SD card.
Guest spacerace Posted July 14, 2005 Report Posted July 14, 2005 or you can alway pick up a SDIO WiFi card with combined memory. San Disk has a WiFi / 256Mb card which I bought, there may be larger storage now.
Guest dolphinsmile Posted July 17, 2005 Report Posted July 17, 2005 http://www.wifi-toys.com/wi-fi.php?a=articles&id=21 :) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My goodness that's impressive.
Guest NX5 Posted July 18, 2005 Report Posted July 18, 2005 The C550 (according to the manual) is v1.1 class 2 (10m. Class 1 is 100m)
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