SSH or VNC From Your Cell Phone?

fintler writes "Andreas Karlsson has a working release of a simple ssh client for the Ericsson P800 and is looking for a way to imput control charactors in the interface. Here is Screenshot 1 and Screenshot 2. There's also a VNC client for the Ericsson P800 (Auf Deutsch!) written by Gino Micacchi with some more screenshots here and here."

Comments

Screen too small for VNC

[Psiren]

I can see the ssh client being semi-useful, but the screen is just too small to do anything much with VNC. This is one of the advantages of *nix imho, anything you can do in the gui, you're likely to be able to do on the command line. More often than not faster too.

Re:Screen too small for VNC

[vasqzr]

A tiny screen is better than no screen when you're trying to fix something.

Wow!

[James A. A. Joyce]

There's so many uses for this; if you've got SSH on a mobile, the possibilites are endless. If you can remotely log into any of your other networked machines then you can do all kinds of things from a sufficiently sophisticated mobile. Just imagine what you could do as a journalist or undercover Amnesty International worker!

Screenshot != slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

lol

Re:Seems to me...

[pesc]

I don't agree. The mobility provided by a cellphone is a great value in itself. You can now access your computers from wherever you are.

Building intelligence into the client, but making data-input difficult, and not using standard protocols - seems a huge waste of money and bandwidth

I would say that SSH is a standard protocol. And having that kind of intelligence in a mobile client is extremely useful when you are communicating over an insecure network. SSH provides much better authentication and encryption than you could ever achieve with a VT100. And by using the compression feature in SSH, you save bandwith too.

I agree that a proper keyboard and 80x25 characters would be useful though.

Can't beat a cell phone for this

[Baki]

One month ago I was hiking in the mountains (on Corsica) and it was quite useful to be able to login on my server at home while staying in a mountain refuge at 3000m altitude. Every gram counts on such travels, and I would never be able to take a 80x25 screen with me.

Also what do you mean "not using standard protocol"? SSH is as standard as it gets when you want to have a secure login on a UNIX server.

Re:Seems to me...

[Specialist2k]

Building intelligence into the client, but making data-input difficult, and not using standard protocols - seems a huge waste of money and bandwidth.

No, running a VNC connection vis a GSM link is a waste of bandwidth and money... At least if you consider what a MB of data transfer over GPRS costs here in Germany...

the wow factor is nothing new

[mydigitalself]

i was doing this 5 years ago with a palm pilot, IR and an ericsson modem phone...very useful.

Already exists..

[Anonymous Coward]

See the hiptop at http://www.danger.com ..

Developers have access to other applications that are not installed on the phone by default (but soon will be available for anyone to download over the wire). Included is an SHH client which not only takes full advantage of the keyboard and color screen, but also has really smart key mappings for CTRL etc.. making emacs quite useable (meta is still a problem though).

Slickest thing to show off on that phone, works really well, definitely got some slack jaws from the sysadmin on that one.

This stuff being showed is just ridiculous in comparision, definite step backwards.

I've had a VNC client for J2ME (including P800)

[mlk]

for quite some time...