How about running a web server on your mobile phone?
Nokia has released a web server software that you can run on your mobile phone. The software is called Raccoon and it is basically a apache web server for Series 60 phones.
To make you phone truly a member of the Internet, you still need to register it to a server that gives it a URL and makes it possible to make TCP connections from outside to your phone. Sounds complicated and it is, but just blame the mobile operators. Test accounts are limited, but you can apply one and download the software from here.
Here is a default startup page of my mobsite, running on my Nokia 6630.
You can also do lots of cool stuff with the included concept demos. It is also possible to make your mobsite interactive using Python. How cool is that?
May 26th, 2006 at 11:01 am
[…] Earlier, I wrote about the Raccoon web server that you can run on your mobile phone. I just found out that it has been released as open source. Also the gateway implementation has been released, so now you are no more attached only to the project’s own gateway. A brief look at the gateway install instructions seemed to be quite complicated, but I’m definitely planning to set up one to my home server. […]