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Nokia has quietly launched the first RFID-enabled cell phone. |
axxxr
Joined: Mar 21, 2003
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We won’t bother getting into all the usual stuff about RFID tags and privacy (yawn), but without hardly anyone noticing last month Nokia came out with a “Mobile RFID Kit” as an optional accessort for its 5140 cellphone. It’s not meant for the general public, but rather for businesses that want their employees to be able to do things like use their phone to be able to touch a tag on a machine and automatically get its maintenance history or what it’s made out of, or call people just by touching their phone to an RFID tagged photo of them.
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http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/04/14.html#a807
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butterguy
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it' funna you mention this axxxr, because my gf's father works in telecommunications and was talking to me about it. They were talking about it at Cebit and he actually showed me the message they send and it's kind of like any tag and it gets scanned, pretty cool if you asked me and definitely the way forward. at's one thing for which i won't bring nokia down. I also read an article int he FT last month about nokia and i can't remember which other comany that were working on integrating chips to allow to have your personal information tied to your credit cards and such to speed up payment processes at check outs and such...was a good read and obviousy could pose a lot of problems but definitely a move forward.
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Posted: 2004-04-14 19:34
