New iPhone 5 with RFID/NFC Support to Control Any Mac/Computer; The Horizontal & The Vertical

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“We control the horizontal and the vertical” says the intro of a very popular television series, but, come 2011 and the iPhone 5, you’ll be able to recite the same quote when it comes to operating complex machinery (Mac computers mostly) thanks to that new RFID/NFC technology that’s apparently going to be found on board of the next-gen iPhone.

We talked about RFID/NFC technology before, and at the time the iPhone was also mentioned as Apple intends to transform the smartphone into a device that can do a lot more things than your average smartphone. According to a recent source, Apple is going to use near-field communication technology to control any Mac that happens to be close to any iPhone 5 user and, in time, the same technology could be used to control more computers.

This RFID wizardry could let you use your smartphone to control not only your Mac, but other Apple computers as well. You would be able to load any applications, and use your settings or data on any Mac as long as the iPhone is in the vicinity of the Mac. Removing the iPhone 5 would discontinue your custom activity on the Mac in question and your personal data that you were using on the Mac (settings, overall appearance, bookmarks, preferences, passwords, contacts or pictures) will disappear James Bond style.

If everything turns out to be true then Apple is probably going to rely a lot more on the cloud with future iOS and Mac OS devices in order to enable such features. Not to mention that current and future Mac OS versions will have to be updated accordingly in order for these new iPhone features to become available to iOS users.

The iPhone 5 would basically be the key/link between one’s personal files, that one would want to access at any time, and, apparently, any Apple computer that can be paired with the iPhone in order to access that data from the cloud. Neat, but not confirmed by Apple, and we’re in for a long wait before we see Steve Jobs show us the new iPhone 5.

It will be interesting to see whether other mobile platforms will also include RFID/NFC technology in future OS versions, and yes Google, we mean Android. You have time to work on it until June/July 2011 when the iPhone 5 comes out.