Is there any way of fitting a IR tranciever to a TR3???
Internally, rather than a USB dongle type…

Cheers
  Rich.

Since the laptop doesn’t have a slot or a port built in for infrared, I doubt that this could be done. Gr00vy0ne could perhaps confirm this. He is always the one coming up with crazy ideas of modding the TR :D Our laptop is already one packed machine, which I am sure a lot of us who have disassembled it before would agree.

i dont think that would be possible since the TR’s dont have any space on the outside (no IR ports) for IR and IR is a line of sight system (unlike bluetooth). So the only way would be a USB dongle or may be even a PCMCIA card (if they have ne with IR).

I don’t want to say it’s impossible but it’s probably more hassle than it’s worth to try to get something internal…and again, as mentioned before, it is line of sight so it’s not worth any “modding”.

If you really really need to have it then I suspect it’s actually better to have an external USB IR adapter. They will be better since they typically come with bendy cables so you can point the IR in the right direction. It seems more practical like this so you don’t have to turn your TR or your other device.

why infrared when you can have Bluetooth!!

well ... not all devices are blue-tooth enabled yet ... have you noticed that latest Nokia phones do come with infra red port anymore?  :(

oops ... i mean “Nokia phones do NOT come with infra red port anymore.

would u consider the Nokia 3650 amongst the latest ?? 

If so, it does have an infrared port.

Ancient stuff. The Egyptian pharoah Cheops himself was said to use a 3650. Look at the specs on something like the 7610.

^ Sarcasm.

nokia 6630 seems cool. I think i will ditch my T610 when nokia 6630 is out ...  :D

It sure would be kind of nice to have that infra-red built-in though. That was one of my disappointments with the TR ( slightest disappointment ). I switched out from my Compaq Presario x1010us for a TR, only to find that I can’t transfer pictures from my T616 anymore due to the absence of the infra-red—the T616 does have an Infra-red port and it’s not very ancient.

Of course, there’s always the TR Bluetooth mod that gr00vy created, so that will work nicely with my phone to transfer pics—- but I’ll wait for when I can afford it.

-best,
Concura

12 July 2004

I think there’s a few bigger let downs than IR, a serial port for a start, and perhaps a TV out…

Yeah, but i just want IR for my ‘old’ish Nokia 6100…

well ... not all devices are blue-tooth enabled yet ... have you noticed that latest Nokia phones do come with infra red port anymore?  :(

actually it’s not the latest model doesn’t have infra red nor it’s obselete
I think it’s just model specific.  Some models are targeted for audience who don’t need much connectivity.

New phone like nokia 6230 still has infra.  Actually the sucessor of 3650, 3660 has infra red too.. they are the later release.

AS for latest 7610 it’s more of a fashion phone plus limited form factor(taken up by 1mp camera), that’s y i guess there’s no infra red.