[ale] Ultimate Cell Phone remote?

[Geoffrey Myers]

Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> Being the Luddite that I am about portable telephone technology I'm 
> turning to the ale community for what might seem like easy questions. 
> I'm looking for an ultimate remote control for my mythtv/boxee/hulu/xbmc 
> HTPC.  After seeing some of the newer phones with slide out 
> keyboards/touch screens etc. I thought these phone would be ideal for an 
> uber remote.  The question I had was:  Can these phones, IPhones, 
> BlackBerries, generally be used without having service.  As in dedicated 
> use as a remote control that communicates via wifi/bluetooth?
> Any ideas along these lines?  Obviously I would have to develop an app 
> for the platform, just feeling the waters for now.

I've got an old iPhone that my daughter's boyfriend jailbroke and it now 
works fine as an iPod.  It will still sync with iTunes, and you can 
install apps and what not.  No service associated with it.

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Until later, Geoffrey

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