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