Bluetooth Chat - a Winner in the Communication Technology?

Ever since the mobile phone made its way to thesome bluetooth co-chatters. Now that the list is
pockets of millions of users around the world itmade, one can create a note and send it via
became the fastest and most efficient way tobluetooth to the other devices/users.
communicate. That is why, no matter the formBut what are the advantages of bluetooth chat?
of communication it took, mobile chat becameIs it better than the simple but effective SMS,
popular among people from any corner of thethat has been used to mobile chat for all these
world. One popular way, especially amongyears? Well, the answer is both yes and no
teenagers, of communicating between mobilebecause, as we all know, sending an SMS isn't
devices is by sending text messages, also knownfree, 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 chattingactivate you bluetooth and you can start chatting.
community; when mobile phones startedThe downside is that bluetooth has got a limited
implementing the new bluetooth feature, usersrange and you can only chat with people that are
found a new way to chat, by installing a simplewithin its perimeter; so if you want to send a
java application on your phone you can begin tomessage to a friend that is not in your close
chat via Bluetooth or bluetooth chat. Bluetoothproximity you will have to pay. The main
chat is a direct text chat between two or moredisadvantage of Bluetooth chatting is that
users, where every one of them utilizes acomplete strangers can communicate with others
bluetooth device and names it (optional). This wayusing Bluetooth devices. The term "Bluejacking"
of communicating is generally used in a public andrefers to people who send irrelevant, surprising, or
populated space like a pub, a street, a plaza andshocking messages to strangers in their vicinity.
so on.Mobile and Bluetooth chatting caught on so fast
The first commercial SMS message was sentbecause in certain situations when you need to
over the Vodafone GSM network in the Unitedcommunicate with a person you cannot always
Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from Neilcall due to the noise in the area or simply because
Papworth of Sema Group (using a personalyou are in a hurry; that is why mobile chat makes
computer) to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone (usingfor a simple and effective way to send a
an Orbitel 901 handset). The text of the messagemessage. It just shows the way in which
was "Merry Christmas". The first SMS typed on acommunication technology evolves, from the
GSM phone is claimed to have been sent by Rikusimple 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; sinceThe next big step for mobile chatting will probably
then people have been sending millions ofbe 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 connectivitydisappear because of too many bad jokes, or
menu on his/her device and turns on themaybe one day we will just have to think of the
bluetooth port. Next, one should try to discoverperson we want to talk to and we will be able to
new bluetooth devices in order to find and adddo that in futuristic virtual reality.