[missing-sync-winmobile-talk] WM5 PocketPC and fax

[Donald Stidwell]

On 4/2/06 11:25 AM, "Jim Robertson" <jamesrob at sonic.net> wrote:

> I hope I'll be forgiven for posting a newbie question here that's not
> specifically related to iSync. I'm looking at Cingular's quad-band 8125
> Pocket PC phone. One thing I'd like to do with it is be able to print forms
> stored on the handheld as .pdf files or Word documents on fax machines close
> to where I am (I'm a physician; these would mostly be customized admission
> and discharge order sets, informed consent forms for procedures I perform,
> etc.). Currently I carry a bunch of these forms around in my car, but if I'm
> sitting on "2 East" or "4 West" I could just print to the nursing station
> fax machine. Do these phone/pda units have the ability to function as fax
> transmitters without using a service such as eFax?
> 
> Before you suggest I just log on to my hospital's 802.11.g network, I should
> tell you my hospitals don't HAVE such networks available to the medical
> staff.
> 
> Has anyone used the Cingular 8125? They're also marketing an HP device
> (hw6515), which ships with Pocket PC 2003 phone edition, but it's more
> expensive, has a smaller screen, and has a tiny keyboard.
> 
> If this is thought by the listmoms to be too far off topic to carry as a
> thread, I'd appreciate any off-list replies.
> 
> Thanks so much,
> 
> Jim Robertson
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Jim, basically the answer is no, unless someone knows something I don't. I'm
not familiar with the particular device you want to use, but on WM devices
in general, printing is not directly supported without a network. (I'm not
even sure that network printing is available with WM5 devices. With WM2003SE
devices, HPs mobile printing is available, but only for certain types of
files and even then I'm not sure PDF is one of the supported file types).

Where printing is supported, you can also print to an I/R device, but I've
not heard of any support to printing to a FAX device.

You can try and Google any other solution, but I don't really think what you
want to do is possible.

Don