Smartphone users, don’t connect to a server, be the server
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It’s kind of a cliché, no cellphones could outperform Smartphones. They are designed to be powerful and versatile, as if Roll&Rolls was designing cellphones. Now, there really is a valuable reason that makes Smartphones deserve their reputation: They can run a Web server.
“The primary goals were to bring a full-fledged webserver to Nokia S60 and to make a web server running on a mobile phone accessible from the Internet using any web browser,” have written on their project web site Johan Wikman and Ferenc Dósa Rácz, both responsible for the Mobile Web server at the Nokia Research Center.
Now, imagine one second what can bring such a project. That instead of uploading your pictures, you just need to save them into the appropriate directory; that you don’t send sounds or pictures anymore, but throw some links to your friends and let them access directly to the files.
Also, imagine how the Internet would be reshaped, how cellphones could be simply used ― for instance, the primary user could be the administrator giving appropriate right to other regular users ― or how file-sharing would become.
This would be amazing, avant-gardiste, and it’s already possible. The required files are available on the project web page. To install the new Apache server, including the very versatile and powerful Python library.
Update: It’s now official. Linux Devices Magazine posted a write-up on Nokia turning cellphones into webservers. We’re a bit proud to know this a month before them ;) via, via
May 3, 2006 | By Nuno
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