You’ve all got your lovely brand new iPhones now then? No, ah well, those who have could be using it to download movies and media torrents.
According to a recent article on Torrentfreak, it may be
possible to run Bittorrent on your Apple iPhone.
In the article they discussed the fact that the
hardware of the
Apple product may make it a viable option, but there are some obvious obstacles.
This is a portion of the original article:-
“The technical specifications of the device certainly make it
possible.
It has more than enough cpu power for it, assuming a nice, tightly
coded client was written.
The built in WiFi (802.11b/g) and use of the
EDGE 2.75G wireless network data transfer system allows a fairly
widespread availability of reception.”
Sounds great in theory but unfortunately the Apple iPhone does not allow installation of third party components. We’ve even seen trouble just getting flash to work, nevermind doing torrent downloads.
Trick to Solve the Problem
The way around this according to P2P-Blog is is to do your torrent downloading on a home PC and control these downloads remotely.
Unfortunately uTorrent users are out of luck as the uTorrent web interface does not mix well with Safari, the iphone web browser.
So bring on Azureus (my personal favorite):
Azureus Plug-ins
Various plug-ins for Azureus are available with a few offering web-based remote control functionality.
Usually the Swing Web Interface plugin would be a suitable choice but it uses Java which, guess what, the iPhone doesn’t support.
So the best bet is the Azureus HTML
Web UI plug-in – it is resource friednly and works in the iPhone Safari browser, although the search function doesn’t seem to work.
If you want to test other applications for the iPhone you can use the iPhoney
simulator.
[Via P2P-Blog]
