July 19, 2004
RFID Tags for mobile phones
Mobile phones could soon have built-in scanners for RFID tags, according to The Guardian.
"Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, which manufacturers use to track and identify products, have been coming under attack for the information they could reveal about your shopping habits to anyone with an RFID scanner. But the same technology could also make it easier for you to get information as well."
"As Nokia's Gerhard Romen puts it: "Today, RFID tags tend to be mobile and readers are stationary, but things get really interesting when you turn that around and make the tags stationary and the readers mobile."
"[...] Reading a tag can make the phone do almost anything: sending messages, downloading information, dialling a predefined number for a helpline, or running an application. Nokia has ideas for where the system could be useful, but Romen expects the market to go in its own direction, and the reader software is written in Java so developers can create their own applications."
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