Series 60 HTTP Server
Posted on Wednesday, August 6th, 2003 6:01 AM
Yeah, baby! I saw this web server for my Series 60 phone over at James' MMSMemo and it's just fantastic.A web server for Symbian Series 60 phones [via My-Symbian.com]
Incredible. This is absolutely incredible! Not because it's highly practical, nor because I can actually get it working on my phone (I can't for some reason), but because it's simply changed the way I think about my Nokia 3650.
Yes, I've been doing lots of PC like things with my phone since getting it, like email, IM and FTP, but it's not until I saw this web-server that it really struck me how this phone is nothing less that an always connected, highly portable,.... computer! Yes, it's a c...o...m...p...u...t...e...r.
What next? P2P file sharing? A mobile Napster? Would it be called mobster :p
I had no problems with the VS httpd app at all. I downloaded it immediately after I read this and tried it out - it's small, simple and works exactly as advertised. It shares out 2 directories, a "web" directory and a photo directory. You can point these directories to any folders you want on your phone, and I of course switched them to use my MMC storage where I keep all my files and photos. From there it just serves up files like normal, but hitting the photo directory displays the thumbnails! It's like a little server-side photo-album app on your phone!
But unlike what both My-Symbian and James insinuated, it's not useless *at all*! I tested the functionality over GPRS and it worked great. I can imagine many times when I have an important document stored on my phone and no great way to get to it from a PC I may be working on (say at a client site - or even down at your local cybercafe or copy shop), so being able to start up the web server and hit it directly from any browser is just fantastic.
Cool stuff.
-Russ
