It uses Bluetooth to create short range peer-to-peer networks with other firechat users.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Mar 2014, at 6:40, Jane <juanitatig...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Here's a free chat app called fireChat. I have not tested for accessibility. > I can kind of see how it would be useful--you can use it to chat with people > nearby even without an internet connection, Or so it says. Mesh networking. I > don't entirely understand how it works, but it's intriguing. > > https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id719829352?mt=8 > > And here's the article that discusses how this tech could be useful--if I am > understanding it correctly. > > http://www.cultofmac.com/271225/appreciated-ios-7-feature-will-change-world/ > > I only ever heard of this tech being used in developing countries, where > villages would use it to contact people in other places--kids in school used > it. stuff like that. but this seems to be making it mainstream. This app, I > mean seems to do that. > > Jane > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
