February 6, 2005
Mobile RFID Forum
Korean mobile-phone carriers and electronics makers will combine efforts to develop radio-frequency identification technologies for mobile phones, enabling people to receive real-time information on consumer products or services through microchips embedded in their handsets, reports The Korea Herald.
The Mobile RFID Forum gathered 60 companies at its start.
Industry watchers are upbeat on the business potential of combining mobile phones with RFID technology to communicate with other electronic devices with smart-card infrastructure, changing the way consumers obtain information and buy products and services.
For example, a mobile phone embedded with a RFID microchip could enable the user to make cash-less payment when purchasing an on-shelf product by simply touching the RFID tag on the item.
[...] Multinational electronic giants Nokia Oyj, Royal Phillips Electronics NV and Sony Corp. established the Near Field Communication Forum last year to promote an RFID-like technology called near-field communications, a peer-to-peer communication method intended to provide connection between devices."
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