BitTorrent: now available for iPhone - bit-tech.net Forums

CardJoe · 4th Mar 2008, 08:49

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/03...e_for_iphone/1

A bored hacker has succeeded in cramming a command-line version of the Transmission BitTorrent client onto the iPhone. A useful app, or a waste of time?

Jamie · 4th Mar 2008, 09:09

This doesn't surprise me, I'm sure almost any linux command line applications will work on the iPhone with a bit of hacking.

cjoyce1980 · 4th Mar 2008, 09:11

If you want a greener way of downloading then watts per hour is gonna be a whole lot less then using your pc, but novel still

Xir · 4th Mar 2008, 09:28

Hmmm, quite useless at the moment...but:

For me the next thing isn't "web2.0", i don't want to share my pictures and diary with the world, thank you.
For me the next big thing is "Internet Anywhere".

Once you get a flatrate and acceptable speed out of your mobile devive (beeing an Iphone or whatever else), could you not save your home line?

Same thing happened to the phone, mobile calling has gotten so cheap, you don't need a landline anymore (except for internet)

Xir

cyrilthefish · 4th Mar 2008, 11:36

This isn't a new thing

These have been out for ages for windows mobile

http://winmobile-torrent.en.softonic.com/ie/57319
http://winmobile-torrent.en.softonic.com/pocket

koola · 4th Mar 2008, 12:59

It's good what this guy has done, but better is using Clutch through Safari to manage your torrents.

rjkoneill · 4th Mar 2008, 13:17

phone call
angry wife - WHERE ARE YOU YOU HAVE BEEN MISSING FOR TWO DAYS
me - i have been waiting outside starbucks for 48hrs for this film to finish download

Firehed · 4th Mar 2008, 14:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jamie

This doesn't surprise me, I'm sure almost any linux command line applications will work on the iPhone with a bit of hacking.

Sure, but that doesn't stop it being pointless.

As koola points out, WebUIs to existing torrent programs are a much better and more practical thing to do. But then again, a lot of the Linux-lovers do things like this just to say they did

bahgger · 4th Mar 2008, 18:39

"Your recently downloaded file has taken up 12.5% of your total diskspace. More memory required. What would you like to do?"

rhuitron · 5th Mar 2008, 00:39

^ It's an apple. So you're fu-du-cked!

And more over, this seems very useless to me.

Rather I use my laptop and Wifi signal than an Iphone.

BTW, I hate apple.

Bluephoenix · 5th Mar 2008, 10:00

one thing where it does become practical is in being used to push smaller files (media especially) to mobiles, as long as there are some dedicated seeding servers.

the more people get that file, the faster the download becomes.

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5th Mar 2008, 00:39	#10
rhuitron Bump? What Bump? Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California, Usa Posts: 122	^ It's an apple. So you're fu-du-cked! And more over, this seems very useless to me. Rather I use my laptop and Wifi signal than an Iphone. BTW, I hate apple. __________________ You use an Apple?? Go play in traffic.

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Bluephoenix Spoon? What spoon? Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Daytona Beach, FL Posts: 936	one thing where it does become practical is in being used to push smaller files (media especially) to mobiles, as long as there are some dedicated seeding servers. the more people get that file, the faster the download becomes.