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.'"

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[Pojut]

'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.'"

Or, you could just...you know...get an Android phone with a custom ROM on it...

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[Jahf]

Insightful? Not really.

If you've gone through the process of rooting Android versus jailbreaking iOS then you'd know there is a pretty serious difference. Both in terms of what you can do -without- going through one of these processes as well as how hard the process is to complete.

While in a flow-chart the processes look like the same block, from an end-user perspective they are significantly different.

And yes, this is the major reason why I went from an iPhone to an Android phone.