| Ever since the mobile phone made its way to the | | | | some bluetooth co-chatters. Now that the list is |
| pockets of millions of users around the world it | | | | made, one can create a note and send it via |
| became the fastest and most efficient way to | | | | bluetooth to the other devices/users. |
| communicate. That is why, no matter the form | | | | But what are the advantages of bluetooth chat? |
| of communication it took, mobile chat became | | | | Is it better than the simple but effective SMS, |
| popular among people from any corner of the | | | | that has been used to mobile chat for all these |
| world. One popular way, especially among | | | | years? Well, the answer is both yes and no |
| teenagers, of communicating between mobile | | | | because, as we all know, sending an SMS isn't |
| devices is by sending text messages, also known | | | | free, while using bluetooth is completely free; all |
| as SMS (Short Message Service) or mobile chat. | | | | you have to do is get a chat program and |
| As technology moved on, so did the chatting | | | | activate you bluetooth and you can start chatting. |
| community; when mobile phones started | | | | The downside is that bluetooth has got a limited |
| implementing the new bluetooth feature, users | | | | range and you can only chat with people that are |
| found a new way to chat, by installing a simple | | | | within its perimeter; so if you want to send a |
| java application on your phone you can begin to | | | | message to a friend that is not in your close |
| chat via Bluetooth or bluetooth chat. Bluetooth | | | | proximity you will have to pay. The main |
| chat is a direct text chat between two or more | | | | disadvantage of Bluetooth chatting is that |
| users, where every one of them utilizes a | | | | complete strangers can communicate with others |
| bluetooth device and names it (optional). This way | | | | using Bluetooth devices. The term "Bluejacking" |
| of communicating is generally used in a public and | | | | refers to people who send irrelevant, surprising, or |
| populated space like a pub, a street, a plaza and | | | | shocking messages to strangers in their vicinity. |
| so on. | | | | Mobile and Bluetooth chatting caught on so fast |
| The first commercial SMS message was sent | | | | because in certain situations when you need to |
| over the Vodafone GSM network in the United | | | | communicate with a person you cannot always |
| Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from Neil | | | | call due to the noise in the area or simply because |
| Papworth of Sema Group (using a personal | | | | you are in a hurry; that is why mobile chat makes |
| computer) to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone (using | | | | for a simple and effective way to send a |
| an Orbitel 901 handset). The text of the message | | | | message. It just shows the way in which |
| was "Merry Christmas". The first SMS typed on a | | | | communication technology evolves, from the |
| GSM phone is claimed to have been sent by Riku | | | | simple mobile phone of yesterday to the |
| Pihkonen, an engineer student at Nokia, in 1993. | | | | complicated and multifunctional phones of today. |
| This was the beginning of the mobile chat; since | | | | The next big step for mobile chatting will probably |
| then people have been sending millions of | | | | be video chatting using the new 3G network |
| messages, creating a new way to communicate. | | | | systems that will allow people to also see each |
| The next step for mobile chat was obvious: | | | | other while they talk; who knows what may |
| bluetooth chat. | | | | come in the future? Maybe the bluetooth chat will |
| To initiate this chat, one goes to the connectivity | | | | disappear because of too many bad jokes, or |
| menu on his/her device and turns on the | | | | maybe one day we will just have to think of the |
| bluetooth port. Next, one should try to discover | | | | person we want to talk to and we will be able to |
| new bluetooth devices in order to find and add | | | | do that in futuristic virtual reality. |