This isn't really half baked at all, all you need is a webserver on the device small enough to run 1-2 clients and https... It's even better than the danger since everything runs on your phone... you have control of security, and we could even make a monitor app that displays when someone's accessing your webserver
<br><br>--Jeff<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:michael@michaelshiloh.com">michael@michaelshiloh.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:michael@michaelshiloh.com">michael@michaelshiloh.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Here's another idea, this one less than half-baked, but I trust this community
<br>to help identify the flaws, seek the gems, and see if anything remains that is<br>useful.<br><br>My current phone is the Danger Sidekick II. One of its features that I really<br>like is the web page that Danger provides that duplicates the data on my
<br>phone: Calendar, address book, notes files, todo list, photographs, email, and<br>perhaps others.<br><br>Modifications can made either on the web page or on the phone. There is no<br>special "sync" command. Data entered on the one is available on the other
<br>almost instantly, assuming data network connectivity. Syncronization happens<br>automatically and constantly.<br><br>I recognize that there are security flaws with this. Remember Hilton's video?<br>This is how it was stolen.
<br><br>Here's how I use it: I jot down notes all day long on my phone. At home, I<br>visit the web page and simply cut and paste my notes into emails, documents,<br>even programs.<br><br>The nice thing about this is that I always have access to the data on my
<br>phone, and I don't have to worry about any special sync cables or cradles or<br>software (all my home computers run Linux, so I can't use most phone desktop<br>programs). I never have to worry about leaving my cradle at home, and needing
<br>the data at work.<br><br>I'm a big fan of CVS, and I often CVS important files from my phone.<br><br>And of course I can quickly check my calendar or address book from any<br>browser, anywhere.<br><br>Now I have many issues with Danger's implementation of this feature, but I
<br>really like the idea. I'm not that familiar with other smart phones, but I've<br>never seen, or heard about, anything like this with the others.<br><br>Of course our implementation will be open, so I can make it do exactly what I
<br>want. For example, provide an API, so that I can write a cron job that every<br>so often will download all data off the phone and CVS it. Remember, the phone<br>doesn't have to be in a cradle for this to occur. Heck, the phone could even
<br>be powered off, and my cron job would get the last version that made it to the<br>server.<br><br>I think that Danger provides the servers for this; in our implementation we<br>would probably have to each provide our own, which means we'd have to write
<br>the server side code as well. I suppose this is all done with PHP, Java, and<br>other languages that I don't know about (I'm more of a kernel/device<br>driver/embedded/hardware guy).<br><br>We could implement as much or as little security as we wish (SSL, encryption,
<br>etc.)<br><br>What do you think?<br><br>Michael<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenMoko community mailing list<br><a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</a>
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