Japanese company, FreeBit, offers a new iPhone application called "ServersMan@iPhone", allowing your iPhone to be any other web server on the Internet. The app is only available in the Japanese App Store.
Once the app is installed, PCs on the internet can access the iPhone to upload or download files through a browser or they can use the webDAV protocol. If the PC and the iPhone are on the same network, the PC can connect directly. If they are on separate networks, then FreeBit's VPN software will engage the connection.
The Freebit's ServersMan@iPhone app is not new. A similar app, Air Sharing (iTunes link), has been launched September last year (and you don't need to wait for this app to be translated into English, because it's an American/global version).
This app is a file storage application that works with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems. Of course it also uses the open WebDAV protocol to accept and share files through your file system or web browser.
[via ReadWriteWeb, Lifehacker]
Hi, my name is Shun Fushimi and I’m a member of ServersMan team in FreeBit Corp., Japan.
Thanks for noticing ServersMan@iPhone.
BTW, we recently released version 2.0 in App Store U.S. for free!
With ServersMan@iPhone, you can use your iPhone as a Web Server.
Also you can use it as a Network File Storage too.
Both of them don’t take you more than 5 minutes.
It works on both Wi-Fi and 3G networks (unlike other similar apps!)
Moreover, version 2.0 enables multi-thread processing so your iPhone can be accessed simultaneously from many people just like usual Web Servers.
We made some demo videos of ServersMan so please see the following if you want to know how it works.
http://www.youtube.com/user/serversman
Thanks!