I love technology and I love doing things “just because you can”, there are however some times when i see something and I just think – why?… why would you do that? And this is one of them.
The Department of Automation and Applied Informatics of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics has finally ported BitTorrent to the Series 60 world.
For those that don’t know – Series 60 is the operating system in most (popular) mobile phones at the moment – particularly Nokia. With the exception of the Nokia 770 Tablet PC many modern phones are based on this operating system.
At the moment the Series 60 BitTorrent client called SymTorrent runs as an application on your cell phone and allows you to download torrents just as if you were on your P.C.
I have to admit that when I first heard about this – I didn’t know how to react, a little part of me went “cool”… but that was quickly extinguished by the burning desire for an answer to the question “Why the fuck would they do that?”. Unfortunatly – I still don’t have an answer for that one. Why you would need to download torrents to your cell is beyond me… Lets go through some possible reasons…
Just because you can – No that’s a crap reason
Some people may not have a P.C. – And still need to download torrents? Oh do fuck off – that is one of the most unlikely scenarios I have come across.
There are some movies encoded for cell phones available as torrents – That doesn’t mean you have to download them on a device that just does not have the processing power nor the network connectivity to maintain a torrent download properly. To speak nothing of the fact that it is a download only client… leecher!
All in all – this has just confused me. And lets never speak of it again.
The No no no! Torrents on your cell. by Troy Kelly, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
