Oppo MeshTalk can make calls and send texts with no carrier or Internet connection
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- Throughput
- g$R
- 02 Jul 2019
Use a real phone (Galaxy) and a goTenna radio, or "Hipster Mesh". No voice yet but they are leveraging Bitcoin lightning channel for micro payments to participating nodes. They will crack the code on out of band voice to keep the channel size down. Check out the "Ambassador" program to bring off grid communications to your town.
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- Concern Citizen
- K6X
- 29 Jun 2019
It will be a security nightmare for everyone...
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- Anonymous
- sXb
- 27 Jun 2019
alcalde, 27 Jun 2019What's bad about this is that Oppo has seen fit to use thei... moreFirstly, we don't actually know it's Oppo's proprietary chip, likely they bought it from a semiconductor firm, so then other phone makers could adopt it maybe. Anyway, it might be unlikely that there are other Oppos in range to make the mesh in the US, but Oppo sells a lot of phones in China so it would work there.
I seem to remember that P2P connections are an optional part of the 3G or 4G spec; the phones use their radio to connect to another phone rather than to a mast. Dual radios would seem to be required for a real time mesh, so maybe that's the functionality of the special chip.
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- Anonymous
- sXb
- 27 Jun 2019
AnonD-731363, 27 Jun 2019Why??? I am very real bt as long as money or demon which c... more!
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- George
- d@h
- 27 Jun 2019
Actually this is much more than a radio or walkie-talkie because of the relaying feature. The 3km maximum range can be exceeded when there are other Mesh network participants in-between. I wish they'd released more information about it, such as whether it supports scatter-gather propagation in that mesh network and how how searching is done...probably an incremental binary search "have you seen this number 3 hops away?" no? "How about 4 hops away", no? "how about 5 hops away", etc... If the protocol is smart enough to allow payment for relaying other user's data...with their own cryptocurrency - it would be a market hit! I wish I could work for them - I have the skills...
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- Anonymous
- sST
- 27 Jun 2019
Anonymous, 27 Jun 2019There's already an app like this on play store Does it work without any internet , BT and wifi is the question here
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- AnonD-731363
- SH3
- 27 Jun 2019
Anonymous, 27 Jun 2019surreal :-oWhy???
I am very real bt as long as money or demon which created them for us not people leads this world to the doom we will end everywhere apart the place we want to be.
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- Anonymous
- bJb
- 27 Jun 2019
walkie talkie ?
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- Anonymous
- uSZ
- 27 Jun 2019
There's already an app like this on play store
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- s-pen pusher
- PMT
- 27 Jun 2019
Anonymous, 27 Jun 2019yes but walkie talkie uses analog signal.. oppo uses the sa... moreto travel up to 3kms, this must be a long wave radio signal, which i don't think will support digital signal nor encryption. still though, i could be wrong, with the fact that it mentions text messaging and not just calls- letters, numbers, and symbols of course can only be transmitted digitally.
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- sr777
- X}t
- 27 Jun 2019
Would be great for communication within an office, a factory (or even home) without having to carry multiple devices. And it is free.
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- NL
- PA7
- 27 Jun 2019
Well if the price is right, am gonna recommend this for my whole big family in town.
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- Anonymous
- Ngx
- 27 Jun 2019
alcalde, 27 Jun 2019The ban on Huawei isn't because it's Chinese. It's because ... moreOmg. So some people are still thinking like this one?
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- Anonymous
- Ngx
- 27 Jun 2019
alcalde, 27 Jun 2019The ban on Huawei isn't because it's Chinese. It's because ... moreWake up
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- Finophile
- 52G
- 27 Jun 2019
alcalde, 27 Jun 2019What's bad about this is that Oppo has seen fit to use thei... more>Limiting this network to Oppo users makes it much less useful or practical.
totally unlike say iMessage (hello fruit machines, I'm looking at you)
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- Anonymous
- IV8
- 27 Jun 2019
s-pen pusher, 27 Jun 2019there is just no other explanation for this to work other t... moreyes but walkie talkie uses analog signal.. oppo uses the same technology but using digital signal that is encrypted.. so only its intended listener can decrypt the message
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- CaptnKarl
- 2Au
- 27 Jun 2019
Shellyman Infinity, 26 Jun 2019Watch, Google steal this book sheet of paper.you don't have to steal something if the technology already exist many decades ago
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- CaptnKarl
- 2Au
- 27 Jun 2019
alcalde, 27 Jun 2019The ban on Huawei isn't because it's Chinese. It's because ... moreexactly, well said and it cant just be bias, we need to put our feet on the shoes of both sides to understand and also to not just spread fake information to other people
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- Anonymous
- tPG
- 27 Jun 2019
US gov: Ban Huawei!
Oppo: Hold my MeshTalk.