Re:Ask HN: Bluetooth kinda sucks. Why don't we have somethin...
by ricardobeat on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @02:39PM
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You’d select a photo or any file to transfer, bump your phones together and ta-da, it was sent over. No accounts or friend lists necessary.
It used a mix of geolocation and wireless signals to determine the match and worked flawlessly. You could even do the same with a computer by bumping the phone against the spacebar!
This was over a decade ago. It’s very depressing to see great tech like this just disappear into the void.
I've had to resort in the past of putting a small web server on the phone, just to get files off it via WIFI. But of course that's clunky.
If peer to peer networking were easier, trustable etc, it could be a real life saver. There's some feature in Google Files that's WIFI sharing, but I haven't tried it.