Hello, an aquaitance of mine claims to have read of a project enabling two (or several?) phones to send sms's to one another in a relatively small area WITHOUT going through the operators and WITHOUT using infrared and Bluetooth...
I am asking you is that possible, or if anyone has more info, I'd be extremely grateful! Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
P.S. This is for research, not to save phone bills :)
2007-03-07 04:40:53 · 3 answers · asked by r4veren 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Anything's "possible" with programmable devices. However, with the software that comes on phones, I'd say no. They're set up to use the protocols a certain way, and without some major tinkering / re-loading / re-programming, they will be buisily looking for the mother ship, and not for each other to send messages.
2007-03-07 04:46:00 · answer #1 · answered by ZeroByte 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible but we'd have to adopt new protocols and the cell phones would have to get very very intelligent as far as their internal control goes. You have to make sure you don't have two phones using the same frequency and you have the difficulty of making the original connection, I wouldn't count on it. That would be like having two normal cordless phones talk to each other from different homes.
2007-03-07 04:46:09 · answer #2 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most phones probably can't, but I guess it would be possible as long as the curvature of the earth did not get in the way of the signal.
2007-03-07 04:44:57 · answer #3 · answered by Wocka wocka 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋