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iPhone Server Farm stretches the boundaries of smartphones
In recent months some have chirped that the iPhone is really a sort netbook in disguise, and now with the debut of a new prototype, the iPhone may start doing double duty as an ultra portable server solution. Created by Japan's FreeBit, the iPhone server farm prototype houses up to five iPhones and is really just a showcase for the company's Serversman software.
The free software supports the iPhone, iPod Touch and Windows Mobile phones allowing you to use your phone for network storage, as a file viewer or as a mini-web server. You can see a video explanation and demo of the entire set-up here.
Via IT Media
By Giggity at 10:49 AM ON 07/15/09
Thats cool...at least they wont go to waste after you get upgrades.
By Neal Coomstane at 1:56 PM ON 07/15/09
That's the most expensive 16GB ever when you factor in the 2 year service contract. DUMB!
By Reality Check at 2:14 PM ON 07/15/09
@Neal Coomstane: That's the most unintelligent comment ever, when you factor in your lack of a brain.
LAME.
By Reality Bites at 3:57 PM ON 07/15/09
@Reality Check:
Your mother was a hampster, and your father smells of elderberries. Now go away before I taunt you a second time.
By Jen at 7:48 PM ON 07/15/09
Not available in the UK appstore!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
By smith134 at 1:14 AM ON 07/16/09
It can be Surprising you, theres in the family
it hods1st generation of iPod touch 16GB
2 & the iPod touch
1 iPhone 3Gs
And is a matter of money in the family, so we do not have super-rich.
By trolomatic at 4:54 PM ON 07/16/09
LOL, at first i thought those iphones were being hacked to be a RAID array or something.
not only the most expensive 16gig server, it would also be hella slow. The I/O of the iphone is just too slow for an "iphone server"...and it would not be able to support multi users as a web server (iphones are single threaded...)
It's a fairly useless app, and considering you could build a Linux server for cheaper then the price of an iphone this seems pretty pointless.
By trolomatic at 4:56 PM ON 07/16/09
Also, my japanese sucks, but I don't see anywere in this article as it being a "server farm" only turning an individual iphone into an individual server. can someone please post were it says it (in the original language)
By notroll at 3:25 AM ON 07/17/09
Please don't feed the troll above.
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