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Authored by: newbish on Jul 24, '03 09:07:07AM
Now I feel really silly! It IS offered on the Belkin site, but it appears to be only sold outside the US. It appears to be a new product, not discontinued. A lot of times, electronics manufacturers will offer their toys outside the US first, to work out the bugs and to make sure that they can pass the US regulatory requirements on electronic devices.

So- I guess that the Smartbeam may eventually show up in the US. We'll just have to wait and see...

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Authored by: dwchin on Oct 21, '03 01:28:14AM

Bah. It's offered on the Italian Apple Store, but they will only take orders from addresses in Italy.

I ordered a generic USB-IrDA adapter, but System Profiler doesn't even pick it up. Nothing shows up on either USB bus in the "Devices and Volumes" pane. Freakin' annoying. Anyhoo, good thing it was only $20. I dunno if I'd want to pay $60 for an IrDA-USB adapter if, for that price, I can just upgrade my phone to a Bluetooth-capable one.

Maybe I'll get motivated to hack a USB driver...



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Authored by: dwchin on Oct 21, '03 01:35:27AM

Well, I just had better luck Froogling for 'belkin smartbeam'. I'm still somewhat philosophically opposed to paying more than $20 for something that's essentially a simple translator. Maybe Panther will make this all moot. One can only hope...



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