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Oppo Introduces MeshTalk – An Ad Hoc LAN With 3km Communication Range
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo has had an eventful time at the Mobile World Congress, Shanghai. The company became the world's first to introduce a new camera technology that will become mainstream in due course of time. Additionally, it also surprised everyone by launching an inter-device communication framework dubbed 'Meshtalk'.
[...] Oppo's MeshTalk is a first of its kind technology that's introduced by a smartphone manufacturer. Prior to MeshTalk, apps like FireChat allowed users to send each other messages and photos in the absence of traditional mediums of data exchange such as Cellular, WiFi and Bluetooth networks. MeshTalk, according to Oppo, will also allow users to make calls and send voice messages within a 3km radius in open fields. This radius can also be achieved in urban environments through a phone's relay claims the company.
Our early look at the technology suggests that it's nothing more than an application of the principles of wireless mesh modes to Oppo's smartphones. A Mesh network works by configuring a device to send and receive data packets from another device. For a smartphone, this means that a gadget's WiFi and Bluetooth radios can be configured to send and receive information from other similarly configured smartphones. The aforementioned FireChat app, for example, works according to these principles. However, Oppo claims that a 'custom chip' is behind MeshTalk, so maybe we're looking at a novel approach with the new technology.
Also at The Verge, BGR, and Android Authority.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 02 2019, @04:24AM (4 children)
Will China (or the USA for that matter) allow the people to own phones like this, with capability to work without centralized control?
(Score: 3, Touché) by Bot on Tuesday July 02 2019, @04:47AM (2 children)
Don't worry, it said 'custom chip'.
There is no, nil, ZERO technological reasons for adopting custom circuitry to do mesh networking, all you need is standard equipment with maybe increased space for routing tables (but aren't those in RAM and aren't modems already able to mess directly with RAM?).
So, custom chip = spy chip.
No subversion here, just some git.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 02 2019, @04:52AM (1 child)
To expand on this, imagine a revolution and the revolutionaries attempting to use mesh network. Quite easy for the police to jam the frequencies, or pick out the transmitters and dispatch nice drones to the source.
Free hardware SBCs and sneakernet maybe.
I guess the mafia and their internet over pizzini are still the best choice.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 02 2019, @04:56AM
To further expand on this, the revolution ain't gonna happen anymore because discontent individuals are strongly invited to take part in the global movement called migration. Lefties should be frothing at the mouth when they hear the term (very few true antiglobalist are, tbh).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 03 2019, @07:39PM
what about "proprietary" don't you understand? if it's proprietary it's not Free, which means it can be used against you more than just in the ways the proprietor meant to use it against you.