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Peer-to-Peer Cell Phones?
Mike writes "This Wired article mentions that research firm SRI International has come up with a nifty way to lessen the need for the ugly cell towers that you see popping up everywhere (I love the ones here in Atlanta that are oh-so-cleverly dressed up to look like pine trees). Their PacketHop software would create a sort of peer-to-peer network, utilizing the unused power in phones in the vicinity as miniature relays, with your voice/data hopping from one phone to the next until it reaches a relay tower and its final destination."
I guess if you're in a pissy mood and notice that someone is bouncing off of your mobile, you can shut it off in the middle of their conversation pretty much the same way people would shut off their Napster program whist you were downloading an mp3.
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Hmmm..... I like all my conversation with my wife and girlfriend(s) to be routed to strangers first.
Every year the National Park Service spends millions rescuing idiots who do stuff like decide to hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon with a cell phone but no water bottle.
Without wireless service in secluded areas, people who deserve to become statistics will do so without a hitch, rather than getting helivac'd out at the last minute because they happen to have their trusty microwave-emitting companion along.
Anyways, who the heck goes to an isolated area to talk on the phone?
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Nooo the ultimate hack is to hace 2 phones to contact each other for a call circumventing the cell tower and company resulting in a 100% free phone to phone call.
800mhz at the 500mw-1 watt the phones are capable of (not that digital crap they are weak) will get you conversation coverage in your local mall. Think of it, you can ring your wife/SO without paying for the call so you can ask her if you can buy more parts from radio-shack while she and your credit cards are having a ball in bed-bath and beyond.
then you need to hack it so that 100 is a party line. anyone within range dialing 100 will be connected to the party line.
that would completely rule at raves and other drugfests... imagine... dialing 101 to contact the E dealer, 102 for the hash dealer, and 103 for the pimp as you struck out with every woman in the place.
oh well.. can someone start hacking these cellphone for fun uses?
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