The iPhone Serial Port Hack 217
An anonymous reader writes "The iPhone's little known secret, a hidden serial port, is revealed. 'The real benefit in all of this is that there are so many console packages for iPhone in Cydia now that you can have a fully functional computer, as useful as a Linux box, but without carrying around a laptop.'"
ipad (Score:3, Funny)
i want to know why everytime i plug in my ipad the pc asks what kind of camera it is
Computer-Phone=Serial port? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fully functional computer? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fully functional computer? (Score:2, Funny)
Wirelessly?
yet another appleboy article... (Score:4, Funny)
as useful as a Linux box
Sure.
What next? They'll discover a hidden parallel port and what? It's supposed to stop world hunger?
Re:Oh Christ No!!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Pff. I’m still fiddling with gender changers, null modems, 9/15 pin changers, RS232 and RJ45 cables... oh, and this ancient boxy thing called a 1747-PIC...
Re:Computer-Phone=Serial port? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No, thank you (Score:2, Funny)
My time is worth too much to play with hidden features that the manufacturer won't even tell me about, much less support.
And yet, you are posting on Slashdot.
FUCK! I had no clue that /. had hidden features... I am guessing that's where all the good submissions end up?
Re:yet another appleboy article... (Score:4, Funny)
What next? They'll discover a hidden parallel port and what? It's supposed to stop world hunger?
Damn right, it'll feed people cereal in parallel.
Re:Next they'll discover the JTAG port (Score:3, Funny)
You mock, but it IS a big deal.
This means I can plug my iPhone into my Vic-20!
Re:yet another appleboy article... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ipad (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Vagina (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Computer-Phone=Serial port? (Score:4, Funny)
Even more existentially, one of the desks has windows on it.
Re:Computer-Phone=Serial port? (Score:3, Funny)
Even worse... MS BOB.
Re:Oh Christ No!!!! (Score:1, Funny)
two cans and a string
you must be an AT&T user...
Re:ipad (Score:2, Funny)
You're plugging it in wrong.
My girlfriend used to tell me that. Now she likes it that way.
Re:Oh Christ No!!!! (Score:1, Funny)
What a surprise that the girls on /. aren't really girls.
Re:ipad (Score:5, Funny)
You're plugging it in wrong.
To be more specific, you forgot to plug a Mac to the other end of the cable.
Re:yet another appleboy article... (Score:3, Funny)
Resistance is futile... or at least reduced by a factor of n assuming all the ports parallel to each other are exactly the same.
Re:No, thank you (Score:4, Funny)