Thread: Cellular Phones & IR

I was under the impression that all of the older nokia 61XX series didn't have IR if it was a US model. The UK and other region folks could do interesting things like beam phonebook entrys, upload ring tones and power-on bitmaps...

we got the shaft.

any UK people know if this is right?

Originally posted by nester:
<STRONG>I was under the impression that all of the older nokia 61XX series didn't have IR if it was a US model. The UK and other region folks could do interesting things like beam phonebook entrys, upload ring tones and power-on bitmaps...

we got the shaft.

any UK people know if this is right?</STRONG>

I have a Nokia 8210 with IR, and have used it with a Palm to transfer phonebook entries (they trasnfer as virtual business cards) ringtones and logos. Also you can play 2 player snake via IR!

so to answer your question fjmedinaa, you can use your nokia with your palm. cool eh?

I have an IR port on my Ericcson CF888 Global phone (love the phone)

It can talk to the palm, ( as a modem or just to xfer phone book stuff) or the pc.

The pc sees it through its IR port, and the phone can then be used as a modem for internet access. the down side, my GSM carier in the US ( Powertel) only supports transfer speeds of 9600 Kbps, so I use another phone (sprint / Samsung) with a serial cable, for nex access.