I recently noticed the VPN option on my iPhone. It took only a minute to plug in the info for our VPN at the office and my iPhone connected up with no problems. Then I cranked up a new app I had downloaded: MochaSoft’s Remote Desktop Lite. That too only took a minute to configure and BAM I was remotely viewing my Windows PC.
There are obvious limitations with this kind of setup and I doubt anyone would ever do anything too complex with it but it seems like a great way to quickly access a remote Windows machine (maybe to check a local file or something like that). I only tried it over wifi – I suppose it would work over 3G or EDGE but I assume the performance would be so bad that it would basically be unusable.
Update: I went back to grab a screenshot of the app in action and it crashed my iPhone as I was trying to connect (it didn’t just drop me back to the home screen – it got me all the way to the shiny apple screen) and now that the reboot has finished the app won’t even launch. Oh well.