Anzio for the Iphone...

[GCC Consulting]

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> Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 9:40 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Anzio for the Iphone...
> 
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008, John Esak wrote:
> >Ah,,, yes, I believe there is some kind of vnc-like thing that runs
Windows
> >stuff.  I'm forgetting what it is called... maybe Parallels or something
> >like that.  It's possible that might run Anzio... but still the keyboard
> >questions remain.
> 
> Parallels is a virtual machine thing similar to VMware, and runs on the
> Intel Macs.  I would be very surprised if it ran on the iPhone.
> 
> I have not done much with an iPhone, only set up e-mail for a friend of my
> wife's which required setting up a gmail account for her as the iPhone
> mailer could not deal with self-signed ssl certificates on the IMAP
server.
> If I remember correctly, the keyboard functions were pretty basic with
only
> upper and lower case alpha, numbers, and the normal set of special
> characters.
> 
> Tom Yager's ``Ahead of the Curve'' blog at Infoworld has quite a bit of
> good stuff about iPhone and competing portable devices.
> 
> The critical factor, other than keyboard, is that the applications have to
> deal with the small screen size to be effective.  Applications like
FilePro
> that are designed for efficient keyboard entry (as opposed to web forms)
> would probably not be a great match for iPhones or similar devices with
> small screens and limited keyboards.
> 
> Once upon a time, in a galaxy far away, I wrote a termcap entry for the
> Radio Shack Model 100 that allowed me to run ``vi'', but it was pretty
> worthless for anything else.  I still have my Model 100 sitting in a
closet
> next to my HP-97 calculator (my wife calls me a pack rat :-).
> 
> Bill

I have a client using phones with Windows mobile 6 and a version of remote
access to run filepro.  The screen scrolls but they are able to access their
app and run them at a reasonable speed on a 3G or is it G3 network.

It is very impressive to see filepro running on a phone.  Too bad fptech
hasn't released their phone app the demoed in Phila. a year and half ago.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net