Upon seeing how useful smartphones can be in a dire situation, I was wondering if anyone has thought of how they can be a useful tool for characters in Dead Reign. Like the saying "There's an app for that," there are a lot of apps and capabilities that you can add to your smartphone. Remember - even smartphones can still be useful without cell service, wi-fi, or wireless connections of any kind, and a lot of apps can be used offline. In addition, I can perceive that clever scroungers can cobble up ways for the phones to receive and transmit signals of all kinds even without surviving infrastructure. One can add a radio function to a smartphone to operate RC cars and planes, for example (And you can use them as drones, perhaps with offensive capabilities...
). What would you do with your smartphones after the Wave? Feel free to share your thoughts. Please take care; thanks a bunch, and have a good afternoon.whassupman03 
). In addition, such E-readers and associated apps may be used as a sort of Enigma machine, where one can use book ciphers to get messages across when you don't want them to get to the wrong people (Not to mention that book ciphers are very hard to break...).[sup]1[/sup] What's great about E-readers is that if you use book ciphers, you can use matching sets of books to establish a sort of rotating book code, which uses a different book every time to make the book code even harder to break. You just have to have the same set of books on every E-reader or smartphone. Still, just about any file can be loaded onto a smartphone or tablet, and read with the right app, so you can easily store a lot of useful information for survival purposes. Please take care; thanks a bunch, and have a good day.
The key to using smartphones and other related devices post-wave would definitely be something like you proposed ICHIBAN11, with the use of internal networks using common WiFi equipment and computers. Still, I tend to think that a well-equipped and knowledgeable group of survivors may attempt to restart a few cell towers to provide cell service within a limited area. While my knowledge of the infrastructure behind cell service is limited, it may allow you to use the phones to communicate via standard cell communications as well. And you also have to remember that some phones may be able to make calls through WiFi connections if there is a lack of cell phone infrastructure. Cell phones like the Samsung Galaxy S4 have this feature. Even so, groups that have equivalent knowledge in other areas such as programming can create their own apps to operate in a world without cell service or the Internet, or at least they can reprogram pre-Wave apps to do the same... after all, software piracy wouldn't be a prosecutable crime these days. 
