Engadget confesses mystification over this little device, the GadgetyII Bluetooth P2P AV system.
Especially since the P2P part implies that to use it with another G2g, youíd be communicating directly via Bluetooth, and thus you must be within Bluetoothís distance. Which is basically the same room.
But the “same room” comment ain’t necessarily so. Bluetooth can be used up to 100m away and recent experiments have allowed a range of 1km. The reason that the range is normally only 10m is a power issue and if these guys have found a way round that….
Here’s what I’ve wrote in January about what I called Local Free Messaging.
Oh dear. More bad news for MMS. Kids are bluetoothing and IRíing like crazy. Believe me, Iíve seen this happening and itís my job to know about stuff like this.
Iím not just talking about Bluejacking, where the fun is not knowing who youíre sending to and the fact that the victim doesnít know who you are. Bluejacking has got a lot of legs yet.
But sometime, itíll change into a kind of local flirting/networking thing. But LFM is like a local file sharing movement. Itís free (content and messaging), itís P2P, you donít need special software installed (assuming your phone has the feature) and itís cool.
And kids are using it to swap their own pics, ringtones, images, wallpaper ñ you name it. The same way as SMS grew in spite of the operators, LFM is growing too. But thereís no revenue model for operators and indeed, no way to track how much itís really happening. So if this is all media hype and bullshit, prove it
It that’s right, this device could be for Local Free Messaging, which I think kids will love. Whether they’ll love it enough to want a separate device for it though, remains to be seen.
On the other hand, it could be a an electronic thumb for all we know.






