Smart Dog BackTalk Devices

These devices are fully supported by Smart Dog Software.

• Palm™ III, V, & VII series of PDAs

  Palm devices are ubiquitous minimalist PDAs.

  To support the following data conversions, install the Palm Converters package:

  • Full exchange of Newton Names with the Palm Address Book application.
  • Full exchange of Newton Notes with the Palm Memo Pad application.
  • Newton Dates can be beamed to the Palm Date Book (although the reverse is not yet supported).

• HP CapShare 920 hand-held image scanner

  The CapShare 920 allows accurate optical scanning of black-and-white images, using optical alignment technology instead of the harder-to-use roller technology.

  To support these data conversions, install the CapShare Converter package:

  • Beaming of CapShare TIFF images to the Newton Fax receiver.

  Note that the conversion process of TIFF images to Newton faxes is very time-consuming; for convenience, a number of images can be beamed from the CapShare to the Newton, and later translated.

• WizCom Technologies QuickLink Pen pen-sized scanner

  The QuickLink Pen is a convenient single-line scanner and OCR engine that can read a line of printed text at a time and convert it through optical character recognition to ASCII text.

  These exchanges are possible with the Palm Converters package:

  • Full exchange of Newton Names with the QuickLink Address Book application.
  • Full exchange of Newton Notes with the QuickLink Notes application.

  Note that Address Book entries beamed from the QuickLink Pen to the Newton will not have the Newton Region, Postal Code, and City fields properly set, because the QuickLink Pen doesn't support these fields. Instead, these fields will appear as a second address line.

Indirectly Supported

These platforms are not directly tested by Smart Dog Software, but they are known to work correctly with BackTalk ObEx Stack, and Smart Dog Software will fix defects found in communications with these devices.

• Windows laptops (using Extended Systems' QuickBeam)

  QuickBeam includes a vCard translator that can beam name cards to the Newton and can receive name cards from the Newton. The Palm Translators package must be installed for vCard translation,

Planned Support

Smart Dog Software is working to make these platforms supported.

• Siemens and Nokia mobile phones
• Psion 5mx/Revo/Series 7
• Pocket PC palmtops using Conduits Technologies Inc.'s Peacemaker
• Macintosh laptops & infrared-equipped iMacs

Unsupported Devices

These devices do not work correctly with BackTalk at this time, and are not currently planned to be supported.

• Newton 100, 110, 120, and 130 (these devices have infrared communication hardware, but the installed infrared transceiver is not IrDA compliant)

• WinCE devices (although these devices support IrDA communications through IrCOMM and a proprietary serial protocol, they do not currently support IrOBEX for data exchange)

For more information

• Smart Dog home page (downloads and ordering)
• Smart Dog BackTalk press release
• Smart Dog BackTalk User Guide
• Smart Dog BackTalk FAQ
• Newton IrDA white paper

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This page was last modified on 24 April 2001.