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insomniasexx  ·  3682 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: FireChat lets you text friends, even without a signal | The Verge

No. I"ll try it today.

Kdwag and I got ourselves some hacked iBeacons. There are some really interesting things iPhones are doing. Bluetooth low energy is going to have insane impact on how we communicate and are tracked.





mk  ·  3682 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I will too. Maybe we should regroup around BT?

insomniasexx  ·  3682 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Looks like Android has BLE for 4.3+. I wonder if they could talk to each other? I knew whenever BLE got widespread support that what we were trying to do with TinCan would be much easier. I just didn't expect it to be supported this quickly. Last summer, all forums were expecting wider, stable support of BLE in maybe early 2015.

I just found out about iBeacons, pushing notifs, and use of BLE yesterday. I asked about Tin-Can but then I hit my knee really hard on the corner of my file cabinet and everyone laughed at me and the conversation went no where.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/bluetooth-le.html

http://www.knowyourmobile.com/apple/apple-iphone-5s/21276/ibeacon-apples-nfc-alternative-explained

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBeacon