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http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...00_controller/

I'm sure more than a few of us might have old iphones lying around.

It would be neat to use it as a bluetooth controller for the n900 to play games or maybe to strap to the steering wheel of the car and control gps or media apps.

Maybe you have the n900 hooked up to the tv, you could use the old iphone to control it.

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You would need the n900 to be running a host server but yet it should be quite easy.
 
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Unfortunately that uses vnc which means wireless and more battery usage.

I think bluetooth is the key.

I think it would make a great marketing campaign.
Upgrade to a n900 and the iphone acts as it's b*t$h.

The old iphones are gonna drop to such a low price that I think they can make a really nice external touchpad, keyboard, gamepad etc...
 

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hahahahahahahhahaaaa, yet another useless thread that ill never see the end of
 
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This is an interesting way to make use of iPhone's infinitely useful capacitive multitouch screen on the n900. At least the apps which don't need direct-screen controls.
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Proposal added.

Thanks for setting me straight. Dunno how I missed the sticky.
 
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So I spent $2 to try out iX11 from http://www.zinger-soft.com/index.html.

iX11 gives you an Xserver on the iphone.
You export DISPLAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0 in xterm and run a program in the same xterm and it forwards the display to the iphone.

Doing this i was able to make a simple qtruby program that could pause the Rhythmbox on my netbook.

Problem was, it was slow to register the click in the qtruby program i made to make dbus pause rhythmbox. It's not someting that would be feasable.

I need to test it with a gtk program instead and see if it is faster or a c++/qt program.

Running gedit using this method was more than fast and responsive so I think this could work.
 
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hmm. My c++ qt app was just as unresponsive as my qtruby app.

I guess it redraws to the xserver to often or some other jazz.


Gonna have to give gtk a shot.
 
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