It appears that Cell phones have now taken another giant leap to act more as PC’s by introducing Peer-To-Peer file sharing. Nareos has developed a P2P application called PeerBox which enables users to download files on their mobile devices while sharing with others.
This brand however of Peer-to-Peer networking promises not to be as controversial as services such as Napster once were, pledging to filter out free copy-right material.
The PeerBox opens with a search box which allows mobile users to connect to a wide source of P2P networks as users search for their desired files. Users cannot only download from other users but Nareos has developed its own servers in which mobile user’s can download premium content.
PeerBox has also been embedded with a Robust Audio Hashing technology which recognizes copy-righted material and requests payment.
Check out PeerBox
Tags: cell phones, music, peerbox, robust audio
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If it filters our copyrighted material this program’s pretty much useless.
i would like to see how this works i can’t imagine it can filter out all material though.
I evisioned this comming to be a long time ago. What we really need is a standard cell phone operating system that people can write programs for. I think that will be Java. My Moterola V360 comes with java preinstalled and hooks up to computer via the usb cable that came with it. It has a removable 60mb chip that my computer sees as an external harddive. I just drag mp3 file over and play with the preinstalled mp3 player. I just got this phone with a oneyear contract from t-mobil. I can replace that 60 mb chip with a 512mb chip for about $40. I think I will wait for a 1gb chip.
This is ridiculous who would use their phone for p2p? It needs to go through PDAs! PDAs can already do this it’s just that no one would do it. Think about how easy it would be share files through pdas all you have to do is “beam” them over via infrared. Now if they wanted to have a treo type pda that doubled as a phone and could connect to other people’s pdas now you’d really be talking I could share music and video with my cousin in California from anywhere the technology is already out there is the annoying thing. I’m sure apple will have a “new” and “innovative” invention that will combine cell phones and pdas and allow file sharing using their propietary codecs any day now.
I’m waiting for a microwave oven that can file share. That would be cool.