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| Hi Everyone..
I just ordered a used e-11 on ebay, replacing my old palm.. yeah I know it's old school but I have my reasons.
Anyways I was wondering if it's possible to upgrade to the OS from 2.01 to 2.11? I think the answer is no to that from what little I have found from searching, but just wanted to ask one of you sage experts to be sure.
Secondly I was wondering what my options are for getting it on the internet. I currently connect my handspring visor via a serial cable to my nextel i205 phone.. but haven't found a cable that works.
Any other possibilities?
Thanks for your tips!
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| Well I just got an idea for internet access.. I have a cell phone cable with a 9 pin serial connection on one end.. and the e-11 cradle has a 9 pin serial plug as well, so i'm going to try to see if a putting a gender changer between the two will work .. we'll see. |
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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 468 |
Location: | Ljubljana, Slovenia | Status: | |
| I'd recommend you replace your phone with something a bit better with IrDA and use that instead of the cable. You can pick up a decent used phone with IrDA, GPRS as well as Bluetooth for under 20 eur. Check out http://www.gsmarena.com/ to help you find a suitable phone model. I'm still using a Nokia 6021 and it suits my needs just fine.
Cheers
SainT |
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Global Moderator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 12,663 |
Location: | Southern California | Status: | |
| I've never seen an upgrade for the E-11 - instead Casio just introduced a new model (E-15 ) with CE 2.11 for Palm-size PCs. (I have one, but I've never successfully connected to the Web with it. ) |
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Global Moderator H/PC Guru Posts: | 7,188 |
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| No upgrade for the E-11 period. I went from that to the E-15 as well, and was able to use a CF modem to make a dialup connection years ago, but talk about slow.........never tried CF wifi.
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 1,054 |
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| Slow? My Uniden Unipro PC100A had a built-in 33.6kbps modem |
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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 468 |
Location: | Ljubljana, Slovenia | Status: | |
| 33.6k is fine for mail, IRC and similar text services.. everything else is just too slow |
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| Hey Everyone - Thanks for the info and tips. The irda phone is a good idea except that my cell phone carrier (boost mobile ) doesn't offer any that I know of.
I think i'm stuck the the serial port connection since i'm cheap and don't want to pay much for mobile internet ..
I might have made a mistake in getting the e-11 instead of the e-15. I thought I saw a few posts suggestion it could run 2.11 before I purchased it, and it looks like many apps require 2.11.
There are a few critical apps that are a question mark for me if they can run on the e-11, and if not then I guess I will just resell it and get a e-15.
Anyhow :_ ).
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| Oh and boost mobile inet runs at like 9-19k, so slow is no stranger to me. I mostly use it for email but occasionally will read news etc. |
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Global Moderator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 12,663 |
Location: | Southern California | Status: | |
| Well, I'd say well more than half of the Palm-size PC apps I've seen will work in CE 2.01 - and I've found more than a few. (I've even managed to get a few CE 2.11 and even a couple of CE 3.0 apps to work in CE 2.01, but they require hexediting. ) Also, there's now .NET Compact Framework support for CE 2.01 - see this thread (and the site linked in its first post ):
http://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=12404&po... |
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| Thanks CE Geek - excuse my ignorance - but i'm very new to CE so is there any basic guide to how to "hexedit" an application. I've seen that mention on a few threads in trying to get newer apps to work on older devices but not sure how to do it. Might want to try it.
Edited by accornce 2009-01-21 9:11 PM
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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 468 |
Location: | Ljubljana, Slovenia | Status: | |
| Quote CE Geek - 2009-01-22 12:39 AM
Well, I'd say well more than half of the Palm-size PC apps I've seen will work in CE 2.01 - and I've found more than a few.
It would be nice, if there was a list of such apps *hint* *hint* *nudge* *nudge* |
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