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A Webserver on Your Cellphone?

Posted by Cliff on from the what-would-you-do-with-it dept.

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?"

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  1. The best way to bankrupt your employer by arivanov · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just run a webserver and post in slashdot. I am sure accounts will be mildly entertained the moment they get the GPRS bill.

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  2. "What else can be done with this?" by Hosiah · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Make a phone call? NMo, wait, it's a *cell* *phone*, what was I *thinking*!?!?

  3. "What else can be done with this?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It can be used to spread viruses toeven more people who think they know how to admin a webserver.

  4. Have GPS? by RingDev · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Imagine giving your children a cell phone with a web server that hosts a web service that will respond with the GPS info. I could goto MyKid.ringdev.com and see exactly where they are. Obviously you would need some serious security. You wouldn't want just anyone to get that GPS info. But it would be great for finding a lost/stolen phone too.

    -Rick

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    1. Re:Have GPS? by oliana · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Or if, when the server got pinged, it rang. So when you lose your cell-phone in your house and don't have a land-line to call it to find it, you can ping it from your computer.

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  5. Two words by EngrBohn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Portable webcam

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  6. Re:Oh great! by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's not so nice when the phone catches fire in your pocket

    Speak for yourself.

  7. In other news... by famebait · · Score: 3, Informative

    Conversely, with the right software you can use your webserver to make phone calls.
    If you really really want to it is also possible to beat screws into wood with a hammer, or alternatively with a banana frozen in liquid nitrogen.

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  8. So... by famebait · · Score: 3, Funny

    instead of browsing the web from your cell, you can serve webpages from your phone.

    Was this by any chance in Soviet Russia?

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