Nokia Sensor app enables Bluetooth social networking
Social networking via cellphone is now a lot cheaper and easier, with the release of Nokia Sensor — at least for users of supported Nokia phones. Using Sensor — Nokia's MoSoSo app for Bluetooth phones — you can send free messages via Bluetooth to other Sensor users in a radius of about 30 feet. The software lets you create a "folio," or mobile home page, which can include a photo and personal info; once you hit the Scan button in the app, you'll get access to all folios within range, and can then decide who you want to chat with. Seems like it could be a useful way to track down friends (and make new ones) in a crowded, dark, noisy nightspot (which seems to be the way Nokia's marketing it), though like other MoSoSo apps, it could lead to a certain amount of cyberstalking, albeit at a very short range (the program allows block lists so you can hide from known creeps, though the default mode initially lets everyone in).
[Thanks, Ruth & Giorgio]
