The car key is about to go head on with the mobile phone in the battle for which one will become your new wallet. BMW believes you’ll be paying for things when out an about not with your wallet, or your phone, but with your car keys.
Mobile phone companies embrace not keys but mobile phones, following Google’s move to include NFC (Near Field Communication) support in its latest Android operating system: version 2.3.
While that means company’s like Samsung, Nokia, and Sony Ericsson are adding the functionality to their next generation of handsets already, and many more like HTC and Apple are rumoured to be doing so, BMW feels that it can get in on the action too with a connected car key and its next generation of cars.
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