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Breaking: S60 becomes fully LAMP compatible

Categories: Nokia, Symbian
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, November 16th, 2007 at 2:47 AM

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LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and the P can be either Perl, PHP or Python. Everything you need to run a full web server can now be installed and run on your S60 device! What does this mean in the future? How about having a computer that is nothing more than a display, keyboard, and mouse running a barebones Linux stack with a web browser. You walk up to it and connect your S60 device and now you have a full blown computer. Very powerful stuff, very experimental stuff. When people tell me projectors inside cellphones are cool and the will lead to the next wave of innovation I laugh at them. With the prices of displays dropping you’re going to see a lot of IP based panels everywhere in your environment. Combine that with Bluetooth that activates by a single touch and you’re soon going to realize the fully hyperconnected world of everything electronic having an IP address.

Thanks to Jukka for the email telling me about this, he blogged it over at the S60 blogs. Don’t forget to listen to the latest Voice of S60 episode where Phil interviews him about the mobile web server.

[Picture completely unrelated, from Oh Gizmo]

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Varun

    I remember reading somewhere that using the Mobile WEbserver you can actually host your wordpress install or drupal right out of your mobile phone .

    Are mobile phones turning out to become mobile server ?

  • jonnybruha

    That idea you touched on was actually my first blog entry. I’ve been dreaming about a future of wireless “shells” that our phones can connect to for an instant desktop experience anywhere you are.