Phone guitar: iPhone OS, Windows Mobile and Android got all night to set the world right (video)

What can you do when no one's got a phone to jam with you? Why, you can be a geeky one-man band, of course! Web developer Steffest (just one name, like Sting or Madonna) managed to do just that by strapping a couple of Android devices (possibly an Archos 5 and a HTC Desire), a couple of WinMo handhelds (looks like a HP iPAQ h1940 and a HTC Touch Diamond), and an iPod touch on top of a portable speaker. All this just for a forthcoming presentation on mobile cross development -- Steffest had to painstakingly write the same audio program "in Java for Android, in C# for Windows Mobile and in Objective-C for iPhone." Oh, and it doesn't just end there -- turns out this dude can also pluck tap away a good Neil Diamond classic on this five-way nerd-o-strummer. Get on board and check out the video after the break.

[willowtwf Posted May 8th 2010 11:10AM]

base on the amount of duct tape and the film quality i wasn't expecting much. thankfully i was surprised. well done.

[Commodorksixtyfork Posted May 8th 2010 11:30AM]

We're not worthy! We're not worthy!!

[Sofabutt Posted May 8th 2010 12:11PM]

15 minutes of fame and the maker of this contraption wasted it on this.

[pankomputerek Posted May 8th 2010 12:35PM]

So what's the price of such a guitar?

[Ilikeapplestuffalot Posted May 8th 2010 12:43PM]

That guys clearly got a lot of free time on his hands...

[fast Posted May 8th 2010 12:49PM]

"Do the hipster !!!"

[ol1bit Posted May 8th 2010 1:21PM]

Very cool!

too bad all the mobil apps aren't listed.

[nwright2 Posted May 8th 2010 1:40PM]

grats on the intelligence to pull this off

too bad it wasn't for something more meaningful/practical/useful in anyway

maybe he was trying to serenade a roomba

keep up the good work but realize if you're smart enough to pull this off you should be smart enough to turn your talent into $$

[JesusFreak Posted May 8th 2010 2:23PM]

Suddenly my Les Paul feels strangely inadequate.

[Electrofreak Posted May 8th 2010 3:28PM]

The irony is, his job would have been significantly easier if he'd been allowed by Apple to use Adobe's development software to write the app for the iPhone OS and Android.

WTG, Jobs.

[eddybreezy Posted May 8th 2010 3:40PM]

ME: Epic much?
FRIEND: Yes very much epic.
ME: Okay. Thanks, just checking.

[Shlooky Posted May 9th 2010 12:09AM]

what iPhone guitar ap was that?

[mfong Posted May 9th 2010 8:32AM]

I was going to make fun of the duct tape, but I saw the video.

[2ripp3dup Posted May 10th 2010 11:48PM]

Pretty cool.