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A Webserver on Your Cellphone?
Mad_Rain asks: "I saw over on Make Magazine an article about using your cell phone on the Internet, except instead of browsing the web from your cell, you can serve webpages from your phone. Of course, it uses Apache, Python and a Nokia S60 series cell phone. I can imagine a couple of creative applications for webservers in strange places, but what else can be done with this?"
Make a phone call? NMo, wait, it's a *cell* *phone*, what was I *thinking*!?!?
At Macworld, everybody reported stuff instantly by writing it on their laptops and uploading via WiFi. However, what if WiFi weren't available?
With a phone like this, you could report on any event, anywhere (even if it meant just serving pictures and audio, since text input on phones is so bad).
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
...doesn't mean you should. There are a lot of ways the things around you can be used and abused. Sometimes the use is a good one (e.g. potatos are great for getting broken lightbulbs out of their sockets), but I just can't think of any way that a phone webserver would be useful. More likely, it'll run up the guy's wireless bill and open him to various attacks.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
99% of the time it would show pictures of pocket lint. Unless people start walking around with phones hanging around their neck. :)