New phone puts your privacy under lock and card
From: The Global Mail.com
A new mobile phone in Japan takes security pretty seriously: It can recognize its owner, automatically locks when the person gets too far away from it and can be found via satellite navigation if it goes missing.
The P903i from NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's top mobile carrier, comes with a small black card about the size of a movie ticket stub.
The card works as a security key by connecting wirelessly with the cellphone.
If an owner keeps the card in a bag or pocket, the phone recognizes when the card moves too far away and locks automatically to prevent someone from making a call.
The user can choose to have the phone lock when it is 26 feet, 66 feet or 130 feet away.
The extra security is handy because, like other recent Japanese phones, the P903i can be used as a credit card or a prepaid cash card.
Of course, the new security feature won't prevent snoops from getting information from the phone -- reading personal e-mails, say -- if it is within the set distance of the security key.
To guard against such intruders, users can activate the phone's facial identification feature.
Should the P903i get lost, the user can track it with its onboard Global Positioning System.
After entering the phone number into a website, the owner will see a map showing the phone's rough location -- directions via GPS can be off by several hundred feet. AP
A new mobile phone in Japan takes security pretty seriously: It can recognize its owner, automatically locks when the person gets too far away from it and can be found via satellite navigation if it goes missing.
The P903i from NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's top mobile carrier, comes with a small black card about the size of a movie ticket stub.
The card works as a security key by connecting wirelessly with the cellphone.
If an owner keeps the card in a bag or pocket, the phone recognizes when the card moves too far away and locks automatically to prevent someone from making a call.
The user can choose to have the phone lock when it is 26 feet, 66 feet or 130 feet away.
The extra security is handy because, like other recent Japanese phones, the P903i can be used as a credit card or a prepaid cash card.
Of course, the new security feature won't prevent snoops from getting information from the phone -- reading personal e-mails, say -- if it is within the set distance of the security key.
To guard against such intruders, users can activate the phone's facial identification feature.
Should the P903i get lost, the user can track it with its onboard Global Positioning System.
After entering the phone number into a website, the owner will see a map showing the phone's rough location -- directions via GPS can be off by several hundred feet. AP
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