It appears that a possible future with the mobile phone is handsets will no longer rely on a mobile phone reception tower to make a phone call, as apparently scientists have now developed a mobile handset that features a built in mobile phone tower.
According to an article by dpa over on Earth Times, researchers at the Flinders University in South Australia have come up with the software which according to Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen who told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the device used a WiFi interface to carry voice which didn’t need to go back to a central repository.
Apparently Gardner-Stephen tested the tech in the remote desert of central Australia which is void of any satellite or mobile phone reception with the result that he was able to converse with a colleague using another mobile handset “several hundred metres away.”
Gardner-Stephen commented that the new software could deliver an instant mobile phone network in such disaster areas as the Haiti earthquake where the mobile phone towers where destroyed. Apparently the scientists are now hard at work trying to increase the range along with improving the sound quality.