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Fujitsu develops waterproof biometric mobile phones

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

AuthenTec has announced that its AES1750 fingerprint sensors are to be included on some new waterproof mobile phones from Fujitsu.

Specifically, the biometric feature provided by AuthenTec will be embedded onto the docomo PRIME series F-09C, docomo STYLE series F-10C and the docomo SMART series F-11C phones. All are waterproof and utilize the fingerprint biometrics both for securing the phone as well as touch-powered personalization options.

The phones new security options go beyond simply securing access to the phone, but also link up with the phone’s near field communication-based mobile wallet transactions to provide an option for requiring biometric authentication for payments made via mobile phone. [end] 

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