Jornada 690 internal modem

Hi all, I'm new to this forum and have very much enjoyed scouring the pages of advice and information already available.

However, there is one question that I can't find the answer to.

Whilst I'm waiting for my Cisco Aironet 350 card to arrive I have a desperate urge to have a go at surfing the net the old fashioned way using the internal modem on my Jornada 690 and a dialup ISP.

The only thing that's stopping me is a remark in the user guide (page 81):

"If you use the HP Jornada 680 or 690, you must use an analog telephone line to connect your modem. Connecting to a digital telephone line can damage your modem."

What does it mean by a digital line? My phone line is a normal UK landline (BT) that is set up for broadband (which passes through those little filter things that you plug into the phone socket). Is this digital?

In short, if I plug my new toy into my phone line, will it blow up?


Thanks

Barney

my jornada modems work fine with the phone line here.. and broadband (adsl) is enabled that's all i know..

Ta cmonex

Crossed my fingers and tried it. Worked fine. Couldn't log in to this forum though annoyingly...

Couldn't get to my yahoo mail account either but I think I've seen that mentioned somewhere else so I'll have a look around.

Barney

This is a drawback of Pocket Internet Explorer 3.0 (which is what you have in your 690) - it won't let you log onto secure sites.

it isnt SSL, it is a bug that prevents PIE to log in the forum and a lot more sites.. CE 2.0 PIE worked fine with that, lol.

sadly as your machine isn't MIPS no alternative browser is available

maybe netfront 3.0 once, if isotherm ever releases a doclist dummy.

Back in 1999 or 2000 I owned a Japanese Jornada 690, which I sold to a friend. While he did not blow it up, he did fry the modem by plugging it into an ISDN phoneline, which was the prominent high-speed internet line in Japan at the time. I believe this passage in the manual may have been translated from the orginal Japanese text.

Yay, my first post.

welcome here

that story is sad

where did you get a japanese 690?!

I purchased the 690 (it might have been a 680, can't remember anymore) in Tokyo. It was a splurge, about Y70,000 total back then. I needed a machine that was really portable to access e-mail, web, write, etc. However, it didn't work out. I could not get e-mail to work at all, so I sold it, and bought a Sony Vaio Picturebook.

I'm getting back into the HPC game soon though, I'm waiting for a Mobilegear HPC I purchased off e-bay.

yes, "digital" line normally refers to either ISDN, or types of PABX (private access business exchange - the things that offices use, etc) that use digital handsets, though I think they've died a death...

Yes, with ADSL, Cable, T1, etc. there's no point to having an ISDN line anymore.

so you do prefer japanese handhelds did you get the mobilegear (actually a japanese nec 770) off ebay.com? i mightve been bidding against you

...i don't know a word of japanese, but i'm fascinated by the japanese hpc's

Hah! So you were the one bidding against me. Yes, I won the Mobilegear that was on Ebay, but I've yet to receive the device. The guy hasn't even cashed my check yet, so I'm getting a little anxious.

I do prefer Japanese handhelds, I actually prefer all my devices to be Japanese. Mostly, I need the Japanese text support, and native support in the OS is the easiest to use. In HPC's, I also don't think there's a way to enable Japanese, like in the PocketPC's (nothing that I've read anyway), so I pretty much needed a Japanese HPC. Rather than wait until my next trip to Japan, it was good timing that Mobilegear showed up on ebay. I had to win it!

i'm glad you won it, it'll be more useful to you than to me (as it's just a passion for me). hope you'll get it soon & have fun with it.
btw do you go to japan often? lucky you