Infrared, related to mobile phones is a short beam of radiation used to send, receive and make connections between mobile phones.
If you all remember back to a few years ago, when the Nokia mobile phone rage first started, I used to play my friends at Snake 2 by connecting each mobile phones together via Infrared. But now that has developed, most modern PC's come with infrared ports which allow you to send files from your PC to your mobile phone.
Infrared works by sending a short infrared beam from a mobile to another to create a connection. This has to be done in close proximity as the infrared cannot travel well through the air, so we suggest you connect about a few cm apart. Both parties should then activate infrared and they will be able to share and connect with each other. Infrared is very limited when relating to mobile phones. If you have a hand held device such as a palm top you could create a text file and then go to a printer port and send the text file to the printer, the printer would then acknowledge this and print out the document.
With bluetooth and 3G I think Infrared will take a back seat in the mobile technology as its very limited. The distance that is needed to connect to a device is too short compared to Bluetooth. If you think about, Bluetooth is a more convenient Infrared, as it offers a larger proximity and the connection is more stable.
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