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First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released

Posted by Zonk on from the first-or-third dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A third-party native application for the iPhone is now available. Gizmodo discusses the real full-fledged iPhone application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone home screen. It is not a Web 2.0 app but the real thing. What is it? Ironically enough, MobileTerminal, 'a terminal emulator application for the iPhone. MobileTerminal.app is NOT an SSH client, nor Telnet for that matter. It can however be used to execute a console ssh-client application.' The iPhone dev revolution has just started."

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  1. Re:Ultimate gaming platform? by Reason58 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I hope all those classic games can be played with a single button...cause that's all you're getting. Every SCUMM-based game uses the left mouse button only. As for the MAME stuff, that varies from game to game.
  2. Re:problems with it ... by Space+cowboy · · Score: 4, Informative

    You've almost certainly not set the application file within the Terminal.app bundle to be executable once it's been transferred. Just like FTP, iphoneinterface always sets permissions to rw-r--r--

    Simon

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  3. Re:What does it do? by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, it's called MobileTerminal.app, and the iPhone runs a Darwin kernel. So, just guessing, but it would seem to be a mobile version of Terminal.app on normal OS X.

    Meaning, it's "a console window for the iPhone's operating system", yes.

    Which also means that if the iPhone had a serial port, you could talk to that with MobileTerminal. Or if you want SSH or Telnet, those clients will run in MobileTerminal.

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  4. Re:SWEET! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've heard of a couple potential SSH clients that would work on the iPhone.

    WebShell is a project that is geared specifically as an SSH client for the iPhone. The problem is that it requires installation on any server that you want SSH access to.

    GotoSSH.com appears to provide web SSH access that would probably also work on the iPhone. It seems unique because it doesn't require any software installation on the SSH servers. I've found it handy since I can connect to some of my servers that are outside of my work firewall (which blocks SSH traffic of course).

    I'm not sure how useful it would really be to try and use a text terminal on an iPhone, but I suppose it would be handy to be able to restart a daemon process or other quick maintenance commands.

  5. Re:SWEET! by dknj · · Score: 3, Informative

    plus all cell phone providers are showing off their new 14 day try for free policy that the government mandated upon them a year or so ago.

    oh you didn't know??