s, the television station N-TV reports a new patent application by Apple. The project is currently called "iKey" and describes a technology that should serve this with the iPhone, or generally to replace a mobile phone the keychain.
This would continue the Apple smartphone trend that has been going really been progressing in the direction that more and more functions and terminals moved in a mobile phone to combine. In "iKey" should be used with the so-called Near Field Communication (NFC) based on transmission of up to ten meters, so the near field is specialized. The ability for NFC, however, have so far only a few phones. However
could replace the iKey technology in future, house keys or car keys, and so make life considerably. Currently, even speculated that iKey could also use the new iPhone 4G. The patent application describes
Apple and how it presents the key solution: the display of the mobile phone is a kind of hub (like a vault) are shown, with which it can be set via the touch function of the correct code for certain locks. If that is too cumbersome, however, appears, which can also perform a classical input via keyboard. The transfer of the "door open" signal to be encrypted of course!
Source: to use http://www.n-tv.de/technik/mobiles/iPhone-als-Schluesselbund-article766746.html
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