Nokia's Making Cell Phones REALLY Smart
Nokia's research center just pubbed an outline of an interesting project: Turning cell phones into Web servers. Apparently, they've been into it since 2004 and are aiming it at the S60 model phone.
The server looks based on Apache and in a nice display of conscience, they've made sure to add support for Python, which means the project will have support not only for Python scripts, but PSP pages, too.
Now add a little vision. If high-speed data networks like the ones they've got in Europe and almost, sort of have here in the US with EVDO, then the impact on the Web could change radically. Nokia thinks most Web sites would migrate to phones, but I doubt that. Heavy traffic sites are a little too CPU-intensive to run over a cell phone.
But it sure could revolutionize personal communication. Think about HTTP-based collaboration tools, and then combine that thought with new communications concepts like Tello (see post directly below). All of a sudden it's becoming awfully difficult to pretend you can't take a call.
Make a big dent in the blogosphere, too. I posted about a desktop handset from Commoca on SMB IT that combines a handset with a touchscreen and portal server software. Similar stuff, but using portlets (I'm guessing) instead of full-fledged web pages on the handset side. Both are aiming at the consumer sector, but it seems to me that a business app would be a bigger splash--and sooner.
No word on when this is going public from Nokia, but I'll keep my eyes peeled.
Nokia's research center just pubbed an outline of an interesting project: Turning cell phones into Web servers. Apparently, they've been into it since 2004 and are aiming it at the S60 model phone.
The server looks based on Apache and in a nice display of conscience, they've made sure to add support for Python, which means the project will have support not only for Python scripts, but PSP pages, too.
Now add a little vision. If high-speed data networks like the ones they've got in Europe and almost, sort of have here in the US with EVDO, then the impact on the Web could change radically. Nokia thinks most Web sites would migrate to phones, but I doubt that. Heavy traffic sites are a little too CPU-intensive to run over a cell phone.
But it sure could revolutionize personal communication. Think about HTTP-based collaboration tools, and then combine that thought with new communications concepts like Tello (see post directly below). All of a sudden it's becoming awfully difficult to pretend you can't take a call.
Make a big dent in the blogosphere, too. I posted about a desktop handset from Commoca on SMB IT that combines a handset with a touchscreen and portal server software. Similar stuff, but using portlets (I'm guessing) instead of full-fledged web pages on the handset side. Both are aiming at the consumer sector, but it seems to me that a business app would be a bigger splash--and sooner.
No word on when this is going public from Nokia, but I'll keep my eyes peeled.
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