14th May, 2021
All You Need to Know About FireChat #Messenger
FireChat uses Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct to create a network between available phones in an area. This is the reason why it doesn't require internet to work.
FireChat was a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which uses wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc
See the #FireChat review by PC Mage here.
Apple's Multipeer Connectivity Framework without an internet connection by connecting peer-to-peer.
The range of Firechat is approximately 70 meters. It uses the phone's Bluetooth technology to send or receive messages.
Firechat is a secure wireless peer-to-peer chat app: Firechat is theoretically resistant to the kind of centralized surveillance that the Chinese government (as well as western states, especially the US and the UK) is infamous for.
With FireChat, you can send text messages without any cell service and uses no mobile data. Your text can even go through when you're in airplane mode.
See what Common Sense Media said about FireChat....
Can WhatsApp be used without WiFi?
Well, for your kind information, you can use WhatsApp without the internet or being offline when there is no network connection available. ... Users will now be able to send messages if they are offline and WhatsApp will deliver the message to the receiver as soon as the app gets an internet connection.
Have we heard of FireChat before?
FireChat shot to global prominense in September 2014, as protestors in Hong Kong’s “umbrella movement” downloaded it 1,00,000 times in a span of 24 hours.
Since then, FireChat has been embraced by activists in mass protests in Kuala Lumpur, Taiwan, and elsewhere.
You get the drift, if you're stuck at a protest where there's an internet blackout, FireChat is your solution.
