Method and system for obtaining distanced audio by a portable device

A method for locating nearby available friends using mobile devices, comprising:

• a) installing an exploration application in advance on a plurality of location detectable mobile devices, in order to connect via a data network to a remote server and to be linked to a sound signature reflective of an availability status of a corresponding user of one or more of said mobile devices;
• b) uploading, from one or more of said plurality of mobile devices in conjunction with said exploration application, a corresponding availability status related sound signature to a database in communication with said remote server;
• c) unilaterally pointing with one of said mobile devices functioning as an exploring device in a specific direction without establishing a connection with any of said mobile devices, while the exploration application installed on said exploring device calculates the azimuth of said direction;
• d) detecting location data, by said remote server, of said exploring device and of all said mobile devices that are within a predetermined range from said exploring device following said pointing step and in the direction to which said exploring device is pointed;
• e) extracting from said database, by said remote server, a list of friends of the user of said exploring device;
• f) extracting from said database, by said remote server, a corresponding sound signature associated with all the detected mobile devices that are within said predetermined range and whose corresponding users are friends of the user of said exploring device;
• g) transmitting, by said remote server, to the exploration application installed on said exploring device, the location data and the corresponding sound signature associated with all the detected mobile devices whose corresponding users are friends of the user of said exploring device;
• h) by said exploring device in conjunction with the installed exploration application, displaying a corresponding icon representative of all the detected mobile devices whose corresponding users are friends of the user of said exploring device as well as a relative location of each of said corresponding icons;
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• i) interacting with one of the displayed icons and being provided in response with audio of the transmitted sound signature associated with said interacted icon to determine its availability status.