March 16, 2006
Motorola's latest phone reads name cards for you
Motorola is making life a little easier for Chinese executives. The company's latest smart phone,the Ming - named after the Chinese word for "bright" or "clear" - packs a 2-megapixel camera that doubles as a business card scanner, according to Dutch Infoworld.
"Name cards are an essential business tool in China, as in other parts of Asia. When two executives meet for the first time, they always exchange cards. To help users keep track of the cards they collect, Motorola engineers added a card scanner and optical character-recognition software to the Ming handset.
The Ming is the first Motorola handset to incorporate the card-reader function, said Guo Feizhou, a Motorola spokesman in Beijing."
Other business card reading cell phone:
-- LG to Release Handset with OCR Capabilities - In November 2004, LG Electronics announced a new soon-to-be released handset, the LG-KP3800, that recognizes and reads characters and numbers on business cards
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