(keitai-l) Re: Wireless P2P?

From: Ben Hutchings <ben_at_decadentplace.org.uk>
Date: 11/12/02
Message-ID: <20021111235400.GJ2953@decadentplace.org.uk>
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:42:21AM +0900, Sam Joseph wrote:
<snip>
> The Japanese P2P group Jnutella's avowed aim is to get real p2p working 
> over keitai, but are still stuck on waiting for the right kind of 
> hardware.  There is as yet, nothing that gives developers a programmatic 
> interface for direct handset-handset communication (i.e. not through the 
> base station).
<snip>

You can definitely do this between Symbian OS phones with Bluetooth,
and presumably by IR as well.  I haven't tried this myself as I don't
have one, but apparently you can offer up files for download by anyone
in range.

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Received on Tue Nov 12 02:03:40 2002