After battling with the 02 website last Monday I managed to secure myself the brand new iPhone 2.0!
No waiting in line outside the Apple store for me. Obviously after playing around with it for a while I wanted to know how the built in web browser would work with WHS. I’m pleased to say it worked well. I was able to log in browse the folders and generally use it as per normal. Obviously the computers tab is missing (you only get the computers tab when using Internet Explorer) but this is to be expected.
Photo browsing works well with the Power Pack 1 thumbnail view and I was able to download photos and add save them individually to my camera, but unfortunately I couldn’t download any music or videos to the phone, with QuickTime giving me an error message.
As the iPhone uses a touch screen, navigating can be a bit tricky, but overall I am very impressed. I would love to see better integration with WHS, perhaps with the home server website detecting what device you are using and displaying correctly (as the BBC iPlayer does currently). Maybe some clever person out there could do that..?
Incidentally if you are wondering how I managed to get a screen grab just hold down the home button and hit the top button (the sleep one) the screen will flash and the image is stored in your camera roll.
July 15th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Looks better then on my Windows Mobile device with Pocket IE, that’s for sure!
July 15th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
There is a iPhone MVC project here: http://weblogs.asp.net/aaronlerch/archive/2008/06/08/rock-the-iphone-with-asp-net-mvc.aspx
As its MVC it requires .Net 3.5 ( and perhaps IIS 7?). And you would need to insert code into default.aspx to re-direct to your MVC powered webpage, rather than MVC the whole WHS website.
I’ve no idea if its possible to install IIS 7 onto WHS ( I’m assuming it wouldn’t be that much trouble).
July 15th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Did you have a chance to see if the Webguide addin worked?
July 16th, 2008 at 5:27 am
I’ve had a quick play around with the WebGuide using my iPhone and you can access the home screen easily,but then the struggle begins, selecting the buttons is okay providing you have nimble fingers but it does not always seem to take action, maybe this is WebGuide loading content but I found I generally have to click twice on buttons. Once you access your music/photos/vidoes they do display, however you can not scroll down to view items off the screen;
http://guardian.homeserver.com/files/iphone-whs-2.jpg
http://guardian.homeserver.com/files/iphone-whs-5.jpg
Viewing photos is the most painless and looks fairly neat, you can try and stream music but I was unable to ‘find a connection’ and quickly gave up. Maybe someone can have better success with more patience. I was unable to save anything to the iPhone at this time.
July 19th, 2008 at 4:51 am
yeah, i agreed. iPHONE is one of the best device in all over the world, and i think it has a lot of innovative features, people should try this on for their use.Nobody would be disappoint by getting this gizmo.