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