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This is the software that most techies will end up searching and installing on any smart phone. The Remote Desktop will allow you to connect to any Terminal Server / Remote Services machines out there. It’s great if you’re on the road and suddenly you want to connect back to your office server to perform some diagnostic check.

Usage

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You can use the software in either portrait or landscape mode (landscape provide a more comfortable widescreen look as a desktop).

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You can easily maintain a list of servers that you frequently connect to. These, of course, could be servers or desktops with Remote Assistance installed (XP Pro, Vista Pro and Win 7 Pro). As long as they are connected to the internet, you will be able to log in to those machines anytime.

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Once you click on the Connect button, you will get a prompt such as above, to indicate that you are connecting to the machine of your choice. This can be done over mobile network or WLAN.

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Once connected, you will notice a row of buttons at the bottom of the screen (noticed that I prefer using the device in landscape mode).

The buttons are for:

  • Keyboard – this will show the iPhone keyboard
  • Extended keyboard – this will show the extra keys (such as Function buttons)
  • Options – this will bring up the options menu
  • Right Click – when you select this, the mouse will work in right-click mode
  • Look around – with this selected, you can tap the screen and pan around (since you can setup to view the screen as 800×600, 1024×768 or 1280×800 mode). You can also zoom in and out by pinching the screen. Note that while this mode is selected, you can also tap the screen to simulate left mouse click.

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In the options menu, you can also trigger Macros. I haven’t quite figure out how this work yet. Perhaps I will explore in greater detail and update on the functionality later.

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Here is the extended keyboard view. As you can see, you can access the Function Keys (F1-F12), arrow buttons and the Start button.

Summary

Great productivity tool and a lifesaver if you are on the road and suddenly asked to login to the corporate servers to check on certain status. Worth installing.

Rating

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Filesize: 0.3 MB

Version reviewed: 1.0

Price: US$ 5.99 (there is also a Free version which is limited to Workstation connections — cannot connect to Windows Servers)