Remote Control your Mobile Phone from Internet

Courtesy: Akash Khare

In this corporate world, you are not allowed to keep your mobile phone with you. This is mainly because of security concerns plus the high resolution camera available in your phone. You are provided a locker for this. So, what do you do when you are away from your mobile and have to access to it in case there is an important call or message.

Even if you are not in office but somewhere else and you forgot your phone somewhere and there is an urgent need to get some data from your phone like someone's contact number or an important message stored in it. You are at your wit's end.

I know how you will feel as I have myself faced this kind of situation many times. I had been searching for a solution to this. I found some web servers which can keep store your phone's data when you sync them but they are not real time. But I found one application which is real time. Nokia is providing Mobile web server for its S60 devices but not many people have S60 devices. And it will be too costly if you have any other Java phone. But there is one more web server application Httpd4mobile.

Httpd4mobile is HTTP server for your Java mobile device. It uses WiFi/GPRS connection to let you access your mobile contact list, Camera, Data etc. through your desktop computer browser connected to Internet. The two awesome feature I like are Dynamic IP Support and neat web frontend to access all mobile functions from your browser. Some of the webservice functions are listed below.

1. CAM Picture : Use phone camera as WebCAM
2. Audio Record : Recording of audio data about phone microphone
3. Contact List : Contact,ToDo and Event list entries can be downloaded directly from phone for import in your email client e.g Outlook. Also it's possible to create a simple new contact list entry
4. Send SMS : Send SMS about a standard web browser
5. File Download : You can download files from phone about a link in your web browser window
6. File Upload : You can upload files from your computer to phone via web browser.
7. Phone Infos : General information about your mobile phone.
8. Phone Jokes : Via browser activate the vibration alarm, flash or the sound on your mobile phone.
9. Server Status : httpd4mobile servers status and other useful information.
10. Server Log : View all HTTP requests in a HTML table.
11. Phone Location : Display your mobile phone location via GPS in Yahoo Maps (in new version)

See the application in action:

This is shareware software and in free mode you can transfer data up to 1 MB. For unlimited data transfer over Httpd4mobile server you have to register at the site. Download the Httpd4mobile app java module from here.

PS: Thanks a lot Akash for such an interesting post.Welcome to our world. :)

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