jusmail 0 Report post Posted September 27, 2004 Nokia develops mobile P2P Music, videos and games could soon be swapped on a mobile phone file-sharing network developed by Nokia. Lorant Farkas, at the Nokia Research Center in Budapest, adapted the peer-to-peer schemes used by internet users to share files and tested them on 6600 model phones. Popular internet P2P networks such as Gnutella and Kazaa allow users to search one another's hard drives for music or video files and then download them directly. The prototype network developed by Farkas can currently be used to share images and text. "Nowadays you can take pictures and record videos with a smart phone," Farkas told New Scientist. "We were primarily thinking of this kind of content." But future versions should go further. Farkas says developing the ability to share digital music, compressed in formats such as MP3, is also a priority. Nokia's system works on phones that connect to GPRS networks which make it cheap to stay online. Users are charged for the data they receive and send rather than the length of time they are connected. H Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
