Thread: 300 testers and not a single bit of info
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Bernard is offline Bernard
2009-11-13 , 16:01
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#146
Originally Posted by TA-t3 View Post
In short, "yes". No receiver. (There are some other differences too but that's the one that matters. For a remote control you would have to load the codes to change channel etc. by other means, instead of programming it through a receiver the way I can with my Palm T3).

Has it been confirmed that there IS no receiver?
People have been using irda ports for some time to send consumer IR signals. If there really is no receiver that would make the N900 very unique. No other Nokia phone has ever had a IR transmitter only (always a receiver/transmitter combination).

I know the manual says the port is not IrDA compatible, but I don't think that necessarily says anything about the hardware.
I'm under the impression that IrDA is a combination of hardware and protocol support. The fact that a device doesn't have any software to support these protocols, makes the device NOT IrDA compatible.
Has anybody seen pictures of the insides of the device? You should be able to tell if it is only a transmitter or receiver/transmitter combination.