June 24, 2004
Wanted: New Friend, Must Have Bluetooth
Student Gracinia Lim has made new friends thanks to mobile phone software that alerts her to compatible people nearby. She is an early customer of a service in Singapore called BEDD that uses Bluetooth wireless communications to scan strangers' phones for their personal profiles, reports Reuters.
"Users download the BEDD software into a compatible phone, complete a short profile of themselves and include a description of who they want to befriend, or an item they want to buy or sell.
The software automatically searches for and exchanges profiles with other phones that come within a 20-meter (65 ft) radius. Matched users are given each other's contact details.
EDD differs from rival services in that it relies on phone-to-phone transmission, running on the short-range Bluetooth technology".
Related article: Mobile users in Singapore make new friends with BEDD
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