BitTorrent-enabled Mobile Phone
Sunday, May 6th, 2007via NewTeeVee:
The BitTorrent cell phone. Hungarian researchers have developed a BitTorrent application for Symbian-based smart phones, complete with an integrated tracker and the ability to use private torrent sites. Too bad the constant data transfer is likely to eat up your battery life in no time.
Unfortunately, this application, SymTorrent, operates over your carrier. I worked on a similar project, HyperTorrent, at the University of Toronto, but it operates over Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) via 802.11, so it will act without any underlying infrastructure, allowing unrestricted, trackerless BitTorrent-based file sharing in any environment. You don’t need a data-plan; you don’t need service (can be underwater, the desert, on an airplane, in the subway, etc).
Addendum: HyperTorrent was built using HyperCast, a software system for self-organizing application-layer overlay networks
