Apple suspends technology to turn the iPhone into a walkie talkie

Apple has suspended work on a project to turn iPhones into walkie-talkie-style wireless devices that allow users to communicate with each other without the need for cellular or Wi-Fi networks, a press article said Monday. .

The information website indicated that the company was working on a technology that would allow people to send text messages to other iPhones over a 900 MHz radio spectrum, commonly used by shippers from other countries. Factory but suspended its work. .

It is thought that this technology differs from Apple's current Walkie Talkie feature in its Apple Watch, which is primarily based on Push-To-Talk, which triggers a FaceTime voice call.

Apple and Intel were working on the technology, which would have been integrated into the Intel chipsets for the future iPhone, but Apple decided to suspend work on this technology, which was being developed as part of Project OGRS project.

It is thought that the name of the project refers to a patent that Apple acquired a year ago, which means Off Grid Radio Service. The patent describes a communication system between two devices operating outside the network, such as Walkie Talkie. Unlike these devices, the technology would have been limited to SMS and not to voice calls.

Meanwhile, Apple is expected to announce the new generation of iPhone, as well as several other products, at an event scheduled for September 10.