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I guess their real plan is put that technology to Mobile version of Opera. Opera 10 Mobile beta is already out and it is absolutely amazing. Why amazing? Well, it works with same engine as Opera 10 on my poor Nokia E65 which is absolutely unsupported :)

I am sure this "plugin" was written in highly (amazingly) portable way and it will end up in mobile devices/game consoles.

Nokia already has a Webserver for Symbian devices. Believe or not, it doesn't use that much battery and RAM. Less than a very high end multi purpose messenger. If you haven't heard about it, blame nobody else than Nokia.

http://mymobilesite.net/

It worked fine under 24MB RAM/200Mhz ARM powered E65.

mod parent up....even Symbian is better.

You can use many other languages too. I even have a web server running on my phone using Nokia's http://mymobilesite.net/...ok, so it's beta and can disappear at any time, but it has an integrated tunnelling feature so it even works from behind firewalls/etc. Very useful.

Symbian phones are cheap and plentiful. Personally, I've been enjoying the Nokia N900, but have had to give it back. I hope to get a new one soon :D

You can try a web server for your phone: http://www.mymobilesite.net/.

They could have gotten a cheap Nokia S60 phone, installed the Mobile Web Server http://mymobilesite.net/ on it and use the positioning information from that. It would have been cheaper still.

Plus, they were not "current users". They bought an iPhone especially to do this.

So put the server on your mobile phone (if you have a Nokia): http://mymobilesite.net/. Opera is hardly being original here ...

It's been done before and it's $0.

My mobile webserver

My mobile site

While people arguing if it will be banned today or tomorrow, Nokia offers such web server for Symbian phones for years now with features making sense.

http://mymobilesite.net/screenshots/

It is Apache/Phyton and several other technologies combined. In fact, it is also a great multi platform phone remote same time for local usage. They solved the NAT/Web robots problem very interesting way too, a real server routes and filters the calls to the phone subdomain so Google doesn't come to your phone as a robot.

The features of it (check screenshots) makes sense, it is not something like 'my toaster runs web server'.

The other killer use for this app I can think right off the top of my head, is being able to sit down at a computer, and actually *type* the message I want to send or forward to somebody with an actual keyboard, which you may or may not be aware, would get the job done with a much higher level of comfort, and unparalleled speed.

Bingo. Reason why I love my Nokia N series. This is a full-blown, Python-powered web server for my cellphone. I can log into it via web browser, I can set profiles. I can view contacts and the in phone gallery. I can send and receive text and multimedia messages, from my web browser, via my phone - it even ties into the contact list on the phone to make it easier. You can set up AN RSS FEED(!) of all log events (placed, missed, received calls, texts, etc!)

And it's free.

Check the screenshots here

I don't want to sound like a booster, but THIS = killer app.

The other killer use for this app I can think right off the top of my head, is being able to sit down at a computer, and actually *type* the message I want to send or forward to somebody with an actual keyboard, which you may or may not be aware, would get the job done with a much higher level of comfort, and unparalleled speed.

Bingo. Reason why I love my Nokia N series. This is a full-blown, Python-powered web server for my cellphone. I can log into it via web browser, I can set profiles. I can view contacts and the in phone gallery. I can send and receive text and multimedia messages, from my web browser, via my phone - it even ties into the contact list on the phone to make it easier. You can set up AN RSS FEED(!) of all log events (placed, missed, received calls, texts, etc!)

And it's free.

Check the screenshots here

I don't want to sound like a booster, but THIS = killer app.

My Nokia N95 8GB can tether on EGPRS or AT&T 3G no problem. And not only in Safari, but mail, SSH whatever. It is just a MODEM.

I get about 460 K/Bs tethered to Windows on 3G with a USB hose. Using the N95 for a modem with my MAC , I get about the same over bluetooth, and about 1.3 M/Bs over USB.

No need to pay someone for an app that should be standard, or at least free.

Nokia even has a cute little webserver (Apache) along with dynamic DNS http://mymobilesite.net/ so I can share my content either locally or over the net on the EGPRS/3G or Wifi.

I know the iPhone is really kewl, however it has some catching up to do with the Nokia. Not technically so much, but in regards to control over who is "doing this cat".