FireChat now allows you to send private messages without an Internet connection

In 2014 a messaging application became known worldwide beyond the hegemonicWhatsApp Not because it exceeds its number of users but because of its unique functionality: the ability to send messages without an Internet connection. Neither WiFi nor data Something that helped its propagation during the riots and demonstrations in Hong Kong All this is semi-anonymous and with the only requirement that other nearby users used to carry the message among themselves publicly.Well, this application returns to the informative arena by becoming more private, now allowing the sending of private messagesand thus enhancing communication, even where there is no Internet connection.

This is FireChat, a curious application that has its own technology to transport messages outside the Internet. To do this, use the connections Bluetooth and WiFi P2P of the different mobiles that have the application and that are no more than about 60 meters away, creating its own network to transmit messages between terminals. Something like like an Internet of its own that does not depend on the cloud, but on other terminals to receive the message and forward it to its recipient.

In this way, he managed to bypass Chinese censorship and prohibitions to transmit messages and ensure that the protesters were in communication and knew where to meet.All this by simply sending a message that the rest of the users could read freely, like a large common chat. However, the company behind FireChat has been working all this past year to improve this technology and add a cool feature: private chats

This is a function with which share messages privately between two users And it is now possible to have conversations between users , beyond the chat rooms that the application already allowed to limit the scope of messages or, at least, order them. These are private and secure conversations that are encrypted so that only the sender and the receiver can read them. In this way, it is no longer just a public tool, but it opens up a whole world of possibilities in communication through the smartphones and No Internet Required

The only thing that is needed is that there be a chain of users of FireChat that link the sender with the receiver passively, only using the app. All this thanks to the new technology of store and forward Thus, its own creators assure that, if the Internet were to fall, it would only be necessary for the 5 percent of a city will use FireChat to get messages across town in delivery windows of about 10 minutesTimes that can always be cut if more users use this application.

In short, a tool that allows you to use instant messaging, even sending photos, at concerts, airplanes and any environment where Internet does not arrive. Additionally, FireChat is available for both Android and iOS fully freeIt can be downloaded from Google Play and App Store