“Google Code is hosting the first third-party native application ever for the iPhone. A real full-fledged iPhone application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone home screen. Yes, this is not a Web 2.0 app but the real thing,” Jesus Diaz reports for Gizmodo.
“The application is MobileTerminal, ‘a terminal emulator application for the iPhone,'” Diaz reports.
“While most iPhone users won’t find a terminal emulator exciting, there are plenty of reasons to get thrilled about this development. First and foremost, this is the first iPhone native graphical application done without an official SDK from Apple (there are others, but they are low-level.) This means that hackers are steady at work trying to do useful stuff with the JesusPhone beyond unlocking it and that more applications will follow,” Diaz reports.
“Second, if Google Code is hosting this it probably means either that 1) Apple is giving the nod to this kind of development, 2) they are going to release an SDK or 3) Apple will realize the need for people to access the iPhone as a development platform to do really cool stuff with it. All three options are good for me,” Diaz reports. “And finally, and most important, we can only hope that someone develops ScummVM and MAME, two game emulation platforms, soon. I want unlimited classic arcade games and Monkey Island in my iPhone. Now.”
Full article, with links and video of the application in use, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
Mumps supporter is probably an Elephant!! what pockets! if you can pop your laptop into one!!! Would that be the bum pocket? ha!!!
@ Chris][, The internet brings out the worst in me when I read comments that make me think that very little thought has gone into the comment!
For example, how old is the iphone? Has the platform matured to the point were it is justifiable to complain about percieved lack of what ever it is one thinks one wants?
You are right in saying that technically it can be many things & indeed a promise has been made to provide free upgrades over the period of the two year contract, hence the ongoing fee AT&T are paying Apple.
Apple know what they are doing, that is why they do things the way they do, not by copying, not by a consensus of a quango, not by a wish list from it’s customers, not by demands from third parties who are keen to expand their income streams. But by having their own goals which we all know alot about & at the same time very little about.
So what is my point? Well just like you, there is much I would like, but unlike you, I appreciate a nice surprise so I bite my lip and hold out on making demands that are probably unreasonable given the age of the iphone. It has taken the ipod quite a while to establish itself as the industry standard. It is taking a while for the Apple TV even longer. How long will it take the iphone to do the same? I can only guess when all the other networks are prepared to do business with it, whether through their own choice or by pressure from their customers.
Sorry you were upset by my comment, but hopefully you now understand why I made them.
Ps. Drink Camel’s Milk!! Farting relieves internal stress and helps to balance the mind, body and soul by getting rid of the fetid & foul smelling miasma’s.
Pps. Yes I do to your last question. If you provide me with a platform to vent my spleen I will wring every ounce of justifiable critical putdown & softcore abuse I can muster!!
@Mumps supporter
Touche! That was exactly what I was thinking! When will people realise??!
Uh, guys, I was being sarcastic about carrying a laptop in my pocket. I thought that should’ve been pretty obvious.
And btw, Mumps is a dipshit. I hate stupid people.
No, Mumps wasn’t right in ANY of his points. He’s a tool. He can’t even run his own life and yet he thinks he knows better how to build a smart phone than Apple does. Also, he’s never been laid, although he may have paid for a “hand release” at a massage joint.
Ok folks, time to get off the kool-aid and start talking about the non existent security on the iphone. It is getting so bad that other mac sites are now forced to report that if you have an iphone, prepare to have it hacked, taken over, and all of your data stolen. For those idiots that spent $2000 on this toy for the ultra rich, here are a few links explaining what a mistake you made:
http://macnn.com/rd/82942==http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/07/23/iphone.security.flaw/
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/08/03/iphone.security.slammed/
This is why the toy called the iphone cannot be allowed on corporate networks. Apple does not understand networks, corporate needs, push technologies or security. Instead they have cute displays with wonderful colors and shapes. Businesses don’t have time to track down hacks and intrusions into their network because of this device. Considering the lax attitude of Apple on this, one would hope that the Attorney Generals of the states start lawsuits to stop Apple from selling this broken product and to sue for billions for lost productivity and lost data.
3) Hard to see screen when surfing?…As opposed to what other phone you can surf on? As opposed to what other phone with a comparable screen?
Not comparing phones here, I’m talking usefulness and value for the $600 one has to spend.
Just think about the physical steps one has to go through with a touchscreen…hand in the way, remove to see screen, hand in the way…opps made a mistake…hand in the way, fix mistake, remove hand to see screen, etc.
I know, I have used a touchscreen GPS for years now, it’s a pain in the ass sometimes. The workflow is bad and the screen gets dirty.
Now on a laptop, there is a more balanced flow, the eyes stay glued to the screen while the hands are on the keyboard safely out of the way. Each can work independantly of the other.
Photo’s look a whole lot better when they are scaled up to fit a laptop screen, especially with high pixel rate cameras.
So a iPhone costs just as much as a MacBook slightly used, you get a 2 mega pixel camera that takes poor quality pictures, you get slow Edge network (sometimes even defaulting to Edge even when a good Wifi signal is around, costing even more money). The iPhone is locked in AT&T so your fscked there too.
So one might as well get a MacBook or a PC laptop, or even a very inexpensive Linux laptop for a few hundred dollars instead because one is going to defaut to using WiFi as much as possible anyway!!!
Comparing usefulness and functionality for the price, the iPhone doesn’t measure up.
Now yes there is a point about the portability of a iPhone vs a laptop.
I agree by taking a sustancially less functionality you get better portability. If you only need a iPhones level of functionality, then take the portability advantage naturally.
However, what is out there and what Apple doesn’t make anymore, is a smaller laptop than the 15″ which has nearly all the functionality of their big brothers that only needs a cell phone integration.
Still fits in one’s suit pocket, can make phone calls and surf the internet etc on a reasonable sized screen with no dirty fingers on the screen getting in the way of what one is seeing.
@Mac Realist
You and mumps must live in the same basement. Look who’s “hacking” the iPhone: David Maynor, the idiot who was outed by black hat!
@ 8R
You and mumps must live in the same basement. Look who’s “hacking” the iPhone: David Maynor, the idiot who was outed by black hat!
You and the rest of the fan boys are so right 8R. By the end of next year the iPhone might have 1 whole percent of the cell phone market. Did you hear that, 1%!!!!!! This is a game changer!!!! Nokia is gonna be toast facing Apple’s 1%.. WOOOO HOOO..
Everything about the iPhone is absolutely perfect and anyone who disagrees is just a Windows troll.. I bet Ballmer is throwing chairs upon realizing that Apple is gonna get 1% of the market.. This is HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So you’re saying the iPhone is the best solution for portability with that set of limited functionality…
And why don’t you think that the smaller laptop you describe is coming from Apple? When it arrives and it will, it will make the idiotic UMPC/Origamis that you say are out there look like cheap toddler’s toys.
By the way, besides lacking cell phone functionality, most laptops don’t have integrated cameras either.
But that 1% of the market will be hugely profitable. Unlike the 70% that have margins of close to zero. (See Motorola.)
And when Apple inexorably starts its march down in price, just like from the iPod to the iPod shuffle, then Nokia better watch out. That 1% will be growing to 10% and then 30% but with profits per sale. Then Ballmer will say that his hardware partners are inept and MS has to build the phone itself. History repeating itself, so maybe the chairs will fly again as well.
By the way, who said that the iPhone is perfect? Just you, setting up a strawman so you can knock it down.
“By the way, who said that the iPhone is perfect? Just you, setting up a strawman so you can knock it down.”
No not at all.. Hey like the rest of you fanboys, I’d buy an iPhone if Steve wanted $2000 for it!! It’s a game changer!!!! The entire industry is SCARED!!!!!!!!
then Nokia better watch out.
You betcha!!! I say they are TOAST next year. I say they go out of business because of the iPhone!!
iHistory repeating itself, so maybe the chairs will fly again as well.
Couldn’t agree more Buddy! Ballmer is SCARED!! Bad!! Let’s face it, this is HUGE!!!
I really like the way you pick just some parts to respond to but leave out the substance … perhaps because you have no answer?
Is that a learned skill?
“I say they are TOAST next year.”
You said it, not me. It’s your dumb prediction, not mine. I didn’t imply anything about Nokia for next year, or even the year after that.
Don’t need no Apple fanboys to say it; others will do the job.
Shoeman, Mumps: see here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070804/tc_pcworld/135494
No offense people, but DOS in 2007 is just plain ridiculous…
I really like the way you pick just some parts to respond to but leave out the substance … perhaps because you have no answer?
No, I am a Mac user not a Mac fanboy…. You guys remind be of the robots in the 1984 Mac Ad….
There’s not a word that I just posted here that are my own words.. ie. “This is HUGE”, “Nokia is TOAST”, “Ballmer is Scared!!!”…. That’s the programmed nonsense you fanboys post daily… Don’t believe me, go back and read some of the RAH RAH nonsense posted here everyday!!! “It’s the best cause Steve said so, Woooo Hooo”
iPhone is a great device… But let me give ya a hint little boys, you’re not even in Nokia’s world… A $600 phone that is slow and missing the most common features that even a $59 phone has is not going to “change everything”…
I know, I’m a “Windows Troll” now.. You kids really need to grow up a bit..
And please enlighten us with some facts: how is the iPhone ‘slow’ –
Trolls spew FUD – if you have substantiated facts – then please, do tell.
Ah, I get it, so sorry to have missed your sarcasm. Disregarding the irrational fanboy comments, I do partially disagree with you.
Because of certain things that Apple has done with the iPhone, the iPhone is a game-changer. Even Tomi Ahonen, a former Nokia consultant, still a Nokia user, not an Apple fanboy, and recognized worldwide as a cellular expert, has declared that the iPhone changes will have a huge impact – to the point of before iPhone (BI) and after iPhone (AI). It’s not primarily a market share impact, but a design impact that will ripple throughout all the handset makers.
Having said that, the race has just begun – will Nokia and the others catch up in the areas Apple changed, before Apple catches up in the subset of features that users are really interested in? It’s an open debate. What will the various submarkets value?
Without being a fanboy, I believe that Apple will get it more right going forward than the Nokias/Motorolas/et al. Why? Because that gang had years to come up with these changes, and did not. Because that gang is interested in features, not usability. Because that gang is still beholden to the walled gardens of the operators, and not focused on the “free” mobile Internet. But it’s possible that this wake-up call will stir some of them out of their inertia, and they’ll roar ahead and best Apple.
And please enlighten us with some facts: how is the iPhone ‘slow’ –
Trolls spew FUD – if you have substantiated facts – then please, do tell.
Oh yes, It’s all “FUD” of course….200kbps is GREAT!!! Wooo Hooo… This is HUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone who doesn’t believe that EDGE Rocks is a troll!! hahahahahaha
I agree, “How is it Slow”.. EDGE ROCKS!!!!!!! WOOO HOOO Steve!!! Quit spreading FUD!! The iPhone is FAST!!!
Apple can’t release an official SDK because of their agreement with AT&T.
Who said it had to be official?
Steve, lock some good coders in an obscure, off-campus building someplace (complete with black pirate flag). Give them pizza, caffeine, and orders to produce and anonymously “leak” the iPhone SDK.
It’d be out in 24 hours, tops.
What’s so hard about that?
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“Without being a fanboy, I believe that Apple will get it more right going forward than the Nokias/Motorolas/et al. Why? Because that gang had years to come up with these changes, and did not. Because that gang is interested in features, not usability. Because that gang is still beholden to the walled gardens of the operators, and not focused on the “free” mobile Internet. But it’s possible that this wake-up call will stir some of them out of their inertia, and they’ll roar ahead and best Apple.”
What are you disagreeing with me about?? I agree with about everything you said…
But you are being too rational for MDN.. Put it like this in MDN Speak
“Nokia and Motorola are FINISHED… I Just know it!!!!!! They’re all SCARED!!!!! It’s the END for them!!!!!! Iphone is the PERFECT device”
I think my disagreement with you was with your implication that the iPhone wasn’t a “game-changer”. Obviously, I think it is, and I guess maybe underneath that sarcasm, you think so too. Now the benefits of the changed game don’t necessarily all accrue to Apple. But the handset and cellular operator industries have certainly gotten a booming wake-up call, and the game has certainly changed. Like with cable TV, the real trojan horse is the Internet inside the iPhone.
As for MDN, this is where the real fanboys live and play. It’s their space so let them exult and rejoice over the Great Apple. I come here just to chuckle at the real Windows trolls that come by. So let them play. No harm there. (Those Windows users really interested in Apple don’t usually come here.)
Commenters on this forum should state whether they ACTUALLY OWN an iPhone before they make comments. That way, the rest of us will know if they are just spouting off uninformed crap, or are actually making comments about something of which they have firsthand knowledge.
Having said that, I DO own an 8GB iPhone (and an Apple TV unit for that matter). I LOVE the iPhone as it is and look forward to the improvements that will come in time. I have used it more in the past three weeks than I EVER used some of the “advanced features” of my old Motorola v710 POS from Verizon. Let me comment on a couple of the gripes people have had.
First, the EDGE network. Free wifi access is very spotty in Washington, DC, where I live. I use EDGE all the time for sending and receiving email, SMS, etc. I like to browse the web during lunch break, and the speed is fine for reading news and forums and playing some of the new web-based iPhone games. EDGE is just fine for getting maps on the Google Maps app and the weather, stocks, etc. The step-by-step driving directions are very accurate and incredibly useful. It’s not GPS, but frankly, it’s not necessary on this device because they have implemented maps so well. Would I like it if it EDGE was faster? Sure, but for those who say it’s “unusable,” that’s just pure bullshit. I could not do these things AT ALL on my old Motorola phone which cost about $350 when it came out.
The 2 megapixel camera is quite good! Keep in mind that this camera creates photos that are 1200×1600 pixels. That’s PLENTY enough pixels for High Definition viewing. It must have a really good lens because these photos look fantastic when viewed on a computer monitor and particularly well when viewed through Apple TV on my Sony Bravia flatscreen TV. My friends are amazed when I tell them they were taken with my iPhone camera. The addition of a flash would make it even better for low light situations.
Photos and video look stunning on the iPhone too. The slideshow function is really cool, and the quality of the 160 dpi screen is hard to comprehend unless you actually have viewed it. Navigating web pages is really easy with Safari and this screen. Once again, anyone who says it’s too small is just missing the point of accessing the web on a pocket-sized device.
Lastly, you should not ignore the simplicity and ease with which Apple has made syncing all this content back and forth with your computer and the iPhone. Plugging in the iPhone lauches iTunes (AND iPhoto too if you choose to automatically import your pictures). There is no comparison with other phones and providers for this functionality.
When I travel for pleasure, I usually took my work laptop along with me so I could check email and browse the websites I look at every day, and look up stuff in whatever city I happen to be in. I won’t need to lug that laptop with me anymore because I have my iPhone now.
My $600 was VERY well spent!