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Wi-Fi in Palm OS PDAs and smartphones difficult or impossible - Windows Mobile still the best handheld platform for Wi-Fi December 11, 2003 [Wireless (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ...)] | By anonymous 1. We have been interviewing PalmSource staff, including 2 vice-presidents ourselves lately (click here for details about it), and they claimed that Palm OS based smartphones will be equipped with support for SDIO Wi-Fi cards at the beginning of year 2004! However now it looks like PalmSource and hardware manufacturers, that make Palm OS based devices, are doing little or nothing to facilitate Wi-Fi in their handhelds: SD IO may not have been specified with Wi-Fi radio power requirements in mind, but weīre surprised that if a broad array of PocketPC devices can sustain it that Palm OS-based machines canīt. Why would so many Pocket PC makers boost the spec. on the off-chance someone might add a Wi-Fi card, while Palm device makers donīt? By the way third confirmation (see previous ones here) that SyChip is working a SDIO Wi-Fi drivers for MS Smartphone appeared: SyChip began touting the product as a way to incorporate Wi-Fi into smartphones To read more on huge problems of Palm OS based handhelds with Wi-Fi click here - itīs a story written by Tony Smith, Hardware Editor, from The Register, who insists in a letter to msmobiles.com, that we should "make it clear in future that The Register is the source"... (as if giving a link would not be enough) Please note: Windows Mobile devices donīt have such problems, so clearly you must know by now which is the best platform for Wi-Fi usage in handhelds (including smart phones)? Yes, itīs Windows Mobile! Not Symbian. Not Palm OS.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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