Yep, that’s if Sharp, NTT DoCoMo, and Nissan have anything to do with it! Sharp and DoCoMo have apparently developed a Mobile phone that also works as an electronic key for Nissan cars. It incorporates Nissan’s “intelligent key system”, which is standard on some existing cars – something like 950,000 of them since 2002.
We’ve heard of lots to do with contactless payments with NFC, but this is a whole different kind of wireless utility – and once which I would snap up in an instant were it an option for me!
It’s understood that commercial deployment could be in 2009 – and I think given the companies involved, it’s fair to say that will be in Japan.
[Via: Cellular News]