Synchronizing PDA Applications Remotely

I am often questioned on how data gathered on handheld PDAs in remote locations can be synchronized to the company or agency database. This question is especially common from government inspectors who work in Remote-Mountains, Idaho. Here are some options:

1. Synchronize using your GPRS mobile phone network with your PDA Phone, or ruggedized handheld computer using a data card.
2. Synchronize using a traditional dial-up connection on your phone. You can get modem cards for your PDA or ruggedized handheld computer.
3. Wait and synchronize when you return to the office or your home computer with internet connection.
4. Synchronize using WiFi, this is not common in Remote-Mountains, Idaho, but Boise and beyond all have this.
5. Synchronize using a bluetooth connection to a laptop database. If you have a large database on your laptop, and want to synchronize some of the data to the handheld, but not all, you can configure the appropriate data to be synchronized from the laptop to the PDA or ruggedized handheld for use in the field where the laptop is not appropriate (climbing trees, exploring caves, hopping fences, wading in swamp lands, etc.)

The bottom line is that you can synchronize to a central database from any place where you have access to an internet connection.