FireChat Lets You Text Even Without a Signal

[GPRS Internet]

FireChat sounds fairly conventional from the get-go.

It's a new iPhone app that lets you chat and share photos with nearby users — anonymously, if you so choose. But instead of relying on global positioning or cell tower triangulation to plot you and others on a map, FireChat relies on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to transmit messages between nearby users.

In other words, you can open the app in the basement of your university library and chat with others, even if you don't have cell service.

With each new user that logs on, FireChat's range expands. "As long as there is a FireChat-enabled device to act as a node in the chain, there's really no geographic limit to how big the ad hoc network can be," creator Micha Benoliel tells GigaOm.

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[jomo]

Another big FLOP, they need to just give up, what were their thing again? imessage? LOL

[datdread]

Another big FLOP, they need to just give up, what were their thing again? imessage? LOL

FLOP??? How old is this thing?

[NOKIA 3650]

As long as there is a FireChat-enabled device to act as a node in the chain,

...Security concerns anyone?

[datdread]

...Security concerns anyone?

LOL...as if we have security now.

[danthony]

LOL...as if we have security now.

same thing i was saying...............

[GPRS Internet]

...Security concerns anyone?

If you want security you have to totally come off the grid...

[datdread]

If you want security you have to totally come off the grid...

...and stop speaking. Other people can hear and we loves us some gossip.

[carey]

Good find, GPRS Internet! I don't own such fancy phones, but was wondering what applications like this were available. On PC, it would be Bonjour-enabled apps that would do anything like this. Which other app have you found that does similar or complements this?