IrDA on the SPV - is it meant to be incredibly slow?!

[Guest HelloDave]

This weekend I just had a new 128mb SD card delivered and wanted to fill it with junk to keep me amused on the train, but I was going to be away from my desktop PC, and had my laptop instead so I thought "ah, my laptop has infrared, I won't bother taking the USB cradle". What a stupid decision... After several frustrating hours during which I tried to send files to the SPV via the infrared recieve program, which after several minutes of sending a wma and telling me "a file has been recieved, do you want to accept it?" conveniently lost it in the digital void (what is infrared recieve for - just VCards?), and then trying to get a fresh install of ActiveSync to even notice my SPV existed on the infrared port (do you need outlook 2000 installed for ActiveSync to work?) I eventually connected my SPV to my laptop as a guest. I had all my wma's and videos ready to put onto the phone so I just dragged them onto the storage card, and waited. And waited... And waited a bit longer... My PC told me the phone was connected at 115Kbps (whatever happend to 4Mbps IrDA?) but I found my transfer rate was a pitiful 8K/s! Needless to say my phone was sat on my desk recieving files for sometime; and of course you can't move it during the transfer because you'll break the link (which I managed to do, halfway through a 15mb video - I didn't bother copying it again!).

Is the SPV compatible with 4Mbps IrDA? Infrared isn't really practical as a file transfer method otherwise, which means another cable to carry about. Doh! On a lighter note though I did get the phone to transfer a VCard to a Nokia 6310 in under 10 seconds, so maybe it's useful for something... :D I did think that if ever Pocket Word came out on the SPV infrared printing could be handy, but not at these speeds!

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Nope, only standard slow SIR.

Are any phones compatible with 4MB IR? I didn't think so (and neither is the P800.... I believe)

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[Guest HelloDave]

Doh! Looks like it's a charge and sync USB cable for me then - thank god my old laptop's got a USB port!