Fujitsu’s crisis-proof phones for Europeans
Phil Lelyveld
Entertainment Technology Center
[Financial Times]
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Fujitsu’s smartphones will certainly feature electronic money technology – enabling owners to use NFC, the mobile payment system – and biometric recognition to make their use as mobile wallets more secure. But handsets for the Japanese market have gone further – and become quirkier. Fujitsu’s Regza Phone T-O1D, launched in Japan last November, includes a “human-centric engine”. Here’s how the press release described it:
The smartphone is equipped with an alarm clock system that monitors and analyses the user’s sleeping condition for the best wake-up call time; a 3D motion-sensor technology to diagnose the body posture; and sound control technology that responds to the noise level in the environment and the hearing ability of the user.
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