It would probably be good in an outback setting where there are just a couple of people who want to talk to each other, but four hops in a mesh network is considered overwhelming for network reliability, so I don't think this would work so well in, let's say, a cafe, or walking down the streets of a big city. Unless some new protocols have arisen that I'm not aware of, I don't think mobile devices yet have the processing power to communicate in a thick mesh network, either.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robin Paulson</b> <<a href="mailto:robin.paulson@gmail.com">robin.paulson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">didn't we discuss this a few weeks ago?<br><br><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6987784.stm">
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6987784.stm</a><br><br>few details on how it works, the protocols underneath and so on, but<br>ericsson has put money into it<br><br>maybe it can be built into a later OM phone...<br>
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