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My company is just looking into developing a PDA strategy, and I wondered if it is possible to deliver firmware updates to a PDA via a network? I have looked into SMS 2003 SP1 with the Device Management Feature Pack and am impressed by its options, but I do not see the ability to deliver firmware updates. Is this possible, or are firmware updates strictly "hands on"? Thanks in advance!!
If a firmware update is interrupted mid-stream for any reason the PDA becomes a brick. It would not be possible to recover, I don't believe. It would have to be done very carefully. A safer method would be to put the update file(s) onto an SD or CF card which you could write a bootstrap in that event.
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you can recover, since I have had an upgrade fail but it is not for the faint of heart...
I like your idea, issue SD or CF cards on all units and then do a controlled update... but most companies I know issue stock devices, so it would be interesting to have a "dual boot" to ROM or RAM.
Let me just give a little food for thought...
Many times, in a corporate environment ROM/Firmware upgrades are non-extistant because if you consider the average PPC deployed that is paid for by a company will be say an hp ipaq 1940 or equivalent. Considering firmware updates to a device of this type would take tech hours, planning hours and a percentage of failed updates (bricks) along the way, it's many times simply less expensive to purchase a new device.
Actually in a corporate environment, they usually buy everybody a Palm and all walk around saying," I don't go anywhere without my Palm Pilot. It has all my appointments and contacts and a nifty calculator built right in!"
Actually the data I saw showed sales of Palm slowing in the corporate enviroment as well as blackberry. PocketPC had a slight increase but it is hard to see if that is due to corporate acceptance or add in promotions by both Dell and HP.
The studies I have seen are showing corporate residence until the pocketpc or portable pc becomes a true desktop replacement. The intro of portable machines that hook up to monitors and keyboards, while the may be vaporware, I beleive has slowed pocket pc sales.
I still see executives complaining about grafitti, on screen keyboards and being reluctant to carry a keyboard. Maybe the virtual keyboards will help.
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