The iPhone Serial Port Hack

An anonymous reader writes "The iPhone's little known secret, a hidden serial port, is revealed. 'The real benefit in all of this is that there are so many console packages for iPhone in Cydia now that you can have a fully functional computer, as useful as a Linux box, but without carrying around a laptop.'"

Comments

If u want linux in your smartphone

[Anonymous Coward]

Get a Nokia N900 or Android.

Re:Or

[Joce640k]

Or, I dunno, a small netbook and a USB-to-serial cable. They're hardly massive.

It's not like you don't know in advance when you're going to need a terminal. If you can remember to bring that massive dongle thing along you can remember a netbook.

Oh Christ No!!!!

[OzPeter]

<sobbing level="softly">I don't want to go back to carrying gender changes, null modems, 9/15 pin changers as well as worrrying about DCE/DTE and handshaking ..... </sobbing>