The Nissan Mobile Phone With Intelligent Key For Automobiles? Really?

Nissan has a phone? No, I don’t mean they have a telephone, I mean they have teamed up with 2 other impressive companies to release a new mobile phone incorporating the “intelligent key system”.

Nissan Motor Co Ltd, NTT DoCoMo Inc and Sharp Corp have jointly developed the world’s first mobile phone capable of functioning as an intelligent key for automobiles.

Nissan, who has been installing this technology in their vehicles since 2002, already has approximately 950 000 vehicles on the road, with this technology cleverly built-in (ready for this type of mobile phone to hit our shelves).

Instead of waiting, Nissan supplied their technical support to the two companies in order to create this phone that will now automatically unlock/lock the car door and start/stop the engine. Basically be the key to your car!

This mobile phone has been made possible due to Sharp manufacturing it while DoCoMo has focussed on the marketability of such a phone in the current market. Luckily, due to Nissan’s foresight, this phone can easily slot into our lives (if we own a Nissan manufactured between 2002 to present) or are planning on buying one.

This is a clever invention which is moving in the direction of past theories of a cellphone/ mobile driven world. It will be interesting to see what other companies start using mobile connectivity and availability in their future products.

At present no solid information is available on this new mobile phone but a demonstration will take place at CEATEC in Japan on the 30th of September and will be released within the 1st quarter of 2009.

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