| You can now interact with your friends by having | | | | refresh, or browse for what you want - the |
| a bluetooth mobile phone and some mobile | | | | information is updated to your cell phone |
| widgets installed. Most companies in this domain | | | | automatically. Each bluetooth chat implies finding |
| provide all that you need in order to find people | | | | out the names of the people with whom you |
| and chat with your friends, business partners etc. | | | | chat. This is how it is done: each bluetooth cell |
| Who would not want to stay on top of things all | | | | phone has a name, which is visible by other |
| the time and know what their friends are up to? | | | | devices. Many people change the default name |
| It would be great to communicate with them and | | | | (usually the cell phone brand or model) into a |
| stay in touch just as if they were right next to | | | | friendlier one. If you play with the scan feature, |
| you. With mobile widgets you can do all that - and | | | | you will meet lots of new people and for some of |
| more: you can get traffic alerts, news, blogs, | | | | them you will already know their names. Which |
| gossip, restaurant reviews, weather reports and | | | | means that these mobile widgets are quite some |
| loads of other stuff that you would normally get | | | | ice breakers! |
| through a web service, without having to wade | | | | The second important thing about a mobile widget |
| through hundreds of websites. Bluetooth chat is | | | | is that it can be combined with other widgets. |
| also possible between two or more people that | | | | These applications were previously called plug-ins, |
| have a mobile phone which supports bluetooth | | | | components, extensions, or gadgets, but the real |
| and mobile widgets. | | | | innovation is that now it is up to the users: they |
| Bluetooth chat is a direct text chat between two | | | | can combine these mobile widgets to create their |
| or more users, where every one of them utilizes | | | | own unique application. For example, the user can |
| a bluetooth device and names it (optional). This | | | | choose to have CNN News, Paris weather |
| way of communicating is generally used in a public | | | | etcetera. Some companies come up with |
| and populated space like a pub, a street, a plaza | | | | technologies that allow complex widgets for |
| and so on. To initiate this chat, one goes to the | | | | communities; they also facilitate user created |
| connectivity menu on his/her device and turns on | | | | applications - you can create an application for |
| the bluetooth port. Next, one should try to | | | | your business or one for your blog. |
| discover new bluetooth devices in order to find | | | | You can find companies on the Internet which |
| and add some bluetooth co-chatters. Now that | | | | offer you a series of advantages, like reading |
| the list is made, one can create a note and send | | | | your favorite blogs on your mobile phone, |
| it via bluetooth to the other devices/users. Even if | | | | checking your horoscope daily, meeting new |
| you do not have a mobile widget on your phone, | | | | people, finding the latest sport results, being |
| people who have this feature on theirs can still | | | | alerted when a friend is near you etc. The most |
| detect you; they can declare your cell phone as a | | | | important feature is that by having a mobile |
| friend and receive notifications each time you are | | | | software provider, you can talk via bluetooth with |
| around or even invite you to use the same | | | | all the people that surround you. Thanks to this |
| company as they do. Because friend alerts are | | | | bluetooth chat technology and the mobile widgets, |
| based on the bluetooth feature of your friend's | | | | you can declare as a friend a person who does |
| cell phone, they will work anytime your friend's | | | | not have both features yet. Those services are |
| bluetooth is switched on. Mobile widgets only help | | | | very affordable, taking into consideration that |
| you communicate easier and offer you many | | | | they are totally free; you can use them as much |
| new opportunities. | | | | as you want, create as much as you want, and |
| Generally speaking, a widget is a small application, | | | | share with others to the point that you can't |
| a little bit of code, that does one simple thing but | | | | share anymore. |
| does it well. In order to be able to run a widget, | | | | As the mobile phone industry expands every |
| you need a "Widget Engine", which is the | | | | year, the mobile widgets are welcome to make |
| framework needed to run these micro | | | | our lives easier and make the connections |
| applications. This approach fits particularly well on | | | | between people stronger. People get connected |
| mobile world, where space on screen is limited, | | | | also through bluetooth chat which, together with |
| and where it is not easy to switch between | | | | these phone widgets, improves the mobile phone |
| applications. A widget engine is so hassle free that | | | | technology. |
| there is no need for you to click from site to site, | | | | |