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Share contact details on your Phone with a simple “Bump”

This I find an innovative product. You share contact details or pictures by simply bumping two phones together. The way it works is as follows

  • Bump phones together
  • The motions sensors send motion and location information to the bumptechnologies.com servers
  • If the bump happens at similar location and at the same time the contact information is exchanged

It even seems to work if there are many people exchanging details on something like a conference.

It’s available for iPhone and Android

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3 Responses to “Share contact details on your Phone with a simple “Bump””

  1. OMG says:
    November 13, 2009 at 14:38

    Good God. That is possibly the most over-engineered solution to a simple problem that I’ve ever had the misfortune read.

    Bluetooth was invented for this sort of thing and does it perfectly well. Just use it FFS.

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    • Jaap says:
      November 13, 2009 at 20:58

      What’s FFS? I’m not familiar with any app for bluetooth that makes this easy. In my experience first the phone needs to be showing it’s bluetooth network then you need to setup connection. Seems more cumbersome to me

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