Diaries of a Nokia Fan Boy

So I had to make an SSH connection to some Lunux computers for one of my assignments at school. I usually use Putty on my computer but I decided to try and use my phone and see how that goes.

Well while I can’t tell you which version of Putty I was using (no about action in the menu), I can tell you that it was quite usable. Of course it would have been completely useless without the keyboard.

One of the issues that I’ve found, the screen on my N95 was too low resolution to really do anything. Although I think if I were to use it on the N97 or 5800 it would be quite usable for something even a little more than just a quick fix. Of course the creators tried to correct that by allowing you to make the font smaller, and while this helps, no questions asked, it doesn’t beat a nice big, high-res screen.

The second issue would be the input method. If you don’t have a keyboard then don’t even think about using this for anything except, well, anything. With the keyboard that I was using (Nokia SU-8W) I was fairly proficient and didn’t have too many problems, but a full size keyboard is unbeatable if you’re using it for long periods of time.

So can you spend hours using it? Probably not.
Is it useful for network admins (or the like) that sometimes need quick access to their network to check up on some info? Totally.

To be honest, I don’t really use Putty that much, or SSH connections for that matter, but the bottom line is that using Putty on my computer and using it on this device only really differs in the screen resolution and the smaller keyboard. But if you can get a device with a higher resolution and then get used to the keyboard you’re set. In the small amount of time that I used it I stopped seeing those things as a problem.

-Nokia Fan Boy
Posted from my Nokia N95 8GB

Posted by Wordmobi