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Waaay back when in Japan, sekigaisen (infrared) was a verb meaning to transfer contact details or photos or whatever between phones via infrared. It was amazing

by 0xfaded 11mo ago

Waaay back when in Japan, sekigaisen (infrared) was a verb meaning to transfer contact details or photos or whatever between phones via infrared. It was amazing how fast the iPhone took over Japan and killed off their quirky phone ecosystem. Edit: want to emphasize that it was totally ubiquitous. Every phone has it

parl_match 11mo ago
yes, "beaming" in the us was also used for quite a while. as in IR beam japanese phones were buggy, feature packed monstrosities. a bunch of companies fighting to check as many boxes as they could. it's not a surprise that they got wiped out by an attempt to make a holistic internet communicator. but for a while, there was nothing like them and their ability to get information on the internet
vel0city 11mo ago
My friends in school would send ringtones, wallpapers, and other small files through Bluetooth. It normally worked pretty well no matter the device.
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ehnto 11mo ago
I remember being blown away by the Gameboy Colour IR link. You could use it to trade Pokemon. That makes a bit more sense now if sekigaisen was already a popular ecosystem.
edbaskerville 11mo ago
In the US (edit: and elsewhere!), "beaming" worked great between Apple Newton devices, including the pretty cool eMate 300 (an early Jony Ive creation, I just found on Wikipedia). In 1993.
onlyhumans 11mo ago
Microsoft Zune had the ability to send music wirelessly to other Zunes, it was called squirting
- tempfile 11mo ago
  That's appalling. "Yo let me squirt you"
  - type0 11mo ago
    Somehow "squirting their users" perfectly defines Microsoft to this day
  - throawayonthe 11mo ago
    squirt me bro
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Lutzb 11mo ago
I wonder if this was driven by the Palm Pilots in the early 2000s. We beamed contacts, calendar entries, whole apps via IR. At trade shows exhibitors had terminals that would constantly send out contact informations via OBEX (?).
cachius 11mo ago
And in Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal on GameBoy Color you could send Mystery gifts via IR! Someone even ported it to an emulator! https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art11.html https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art11.html

by 0xfaded 11mo ago

parl_match 11mo ago

yes, "beaming" in the us was also used for quite a while. as in IR beam japanese phones were buggy, feature packed monstrosities. a bunch of companies fighting to check as many boxes as they could. it's not a surprise that they got wiped out by an attempt to make a holistic internet communicator. but for a while, there was nothing like them and their ability to get information on the internet

vel0city 11mo ago

My friends in school would send ringtones, wallpapers, and other small files through Bluetooth. It normally worked pretty well no matter the device.

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ehnto 11mo ago

I remember being blown away by the Gameboy Colour IR link. You could use it to trade Pokemon. That makes a bit more sense now if sekigaisen was already a popular ecosystem.

edbaskerville 11mo ago

In the US (edit: and elsewhere!), "beaming" worked great between Apple Newton devices, including the pretty cool eMate 300 (an early Jony Ive creation, I just found on Wikipedia). In 1993.

onlyhumans 11mo ago

Microsoft Zune had the ability to send music wirelessly to other Zunes, it was called squirting

tempfile 11mo ago
That's appalling. "Yo let me squirt you"
- type0 11mo ago
  Somehow "squirting their users" perfectly defines Microsoft to this day
- throawayonthe 11mo ago
  squirt me bro
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Lutzb 11mo ago

I wonder if this was driven by the Palm Pilots in the early 2000s. We beamed contacts, calendar entries, whole apps via IR. At trade shows exhibitors had terminals that would constantly send out contact informations via OBEX (?).

cachius 11mo ago

And in Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal on GameBoy Color you could send Mystery gifts via IR! Someone even ported it to an emulator! https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art11.html https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art11.html