Test: Iphone as pc

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ok so Im looking for ways to turn my iphone into a pc. Yesterday I gave it a go and from what I can see, the only reason why it cant is because it uses component cable instead of HDMI and it doesnt allow bluetooth peripherals like keyboard and mice to connect to it. any other problems are software driven.

Anyone else feel the iphone is not using a lot of its potential? I think a lot of smart phones can do this but the iphone has the best setup for it.
 
codec said:
the only reason why it cant is because it uses component cable instead of HDMI and it doesnt allow bluetooth peripherals like keyboard and mice to connect to it. any other problems are software driven.
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So what exactly does it have going for it?
As that link currently lists everything that a computer basically needs that the iphone can't use as a computer!
 
Capn' $qu!ff said:
Sell the fasion accessory and get a proper phone and PC
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It's far more than a fashion accessory if you know what you're doing with it. Just ask your mate z0mbi3 who used to think the same thing, now you'd have to rip it from his cold dead hands to get it away from him. ;)
 
N810 + usb converter + keyboard = awesomeness, well used to be until they broke drivers or maybe its my problem, but at any rate, I don't use it for that, it was a good idea, but eye strainy vision is not so good.

I imagine I phone would be worse... Why not just go for one of those low power system on chip? And get a proper phone :p
 
What a retarded post. It's a phone, it wasnt made to be connected up to a screen and ran like a full blown PC. The sooner you get that into your head, the better.
 
The iphone sacrifices some features for the nice interface. when you turn it into a desktop device you lose that. It would be better using a windows mobile phone if anything.

But why bother, when a cheap Pc is so much better.
 
Wicksta said:
It's far more than a fashion accessory if you know what you're doing with it. Just ask your mate z0mbi3 who used to think the same thing, now you'd have to rip it from his cold dead hands to get it away from him. ;)
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I've been through this several times with several different people. The iPhone I can only describe as one thing "A Jack of all trades yet master of none!"
 
Being fair it is possible, with n810 you can (could) connect a keyboard to it and the screen is generally good enough so you can type some documents or posts or something. Say you are going travelling for a week in another country or something, you could keep one of those blog things... if you have friends... who care ;), you would only need a keyboard and then it is pretty easy. Maybe a fold-out keyboard may work better.

Can't say for the Iphone though.
 
ok firstly give 6 years and mobile devices will be our computers - chips will be 16nm in size (for those that know our current cpu chips are at 40nm depending on the cpu you have.

secondly its called the iphone because there are technophobes that dont have an ounce of innovation in their body post nonsense like this

~J~ said:
the clue is in the name:

iphone
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Its a mobile device. its called iphone so you know primarily thats what it does. It also browses the internet but you dont call it an ibrowser do you.

The device uses an operating system and from what I see windows mobile isnt as inovative as apples, I read good things about their next version but the software just isnt there yet.

My approach isnt meant to beat the pc at anything, just be able to do what the day to day user wants to do (create documents, browse the net etc) its not gonna play crysis war head at 100fps - your just being stupid. Try thinking out of the box for a second and look at what the device can do now and why cant it do anything else and you find that its limitations are very few and still possible to do.
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Does it have a proper Sat-Nav program for it out yet?
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they are improving their current gps in the next os 3.0, but what relevance is that? does YOUR pc have sat nav?

raymond, a netbook cant do calls and isnt as mobile as an iphone a netbook is a cheap laptop aimed at people that just want to browse on the go..... well I can do that on my iphone :p so the netbook for me is redundant
 
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Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Does it have a proper Sat-Nav program for it out yet?
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Unofficially yes using xGPS, officially not yet as Apple specifically banned development of such apps for the iPhone. Good news is the 3.0 update allows GPS software with turn by turn directions.
 
I think the point is being missed here.

Im not singling out the iphone just because I have one or anything like that - Im speaking of any smartphone that can. I just tried it on the iphone because its all I have.

but this is how close I got to using it as a very downscaled pc. My limitations was:

limited bluetooth prevented connection of keyboard/mouse
screen splitting was not upscaled due to connection being component and not hdmi/dvi

if I had those 2 resolved. I'd have no problem.
 
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