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Casio Unveils Better Cell Phone Security

Slim, trim fingerprint scanner will protect your portable devices.

Martyn Williams, IDG News Service

Friday, February 28, 2003

Casio Computer and Alps Electric have developed a small fingerprint
scanner built into a short, thin cylinder for use in cellular telephones and
other portable devices.

The cylinder, 0.2 inches in diameter and 0.6 inches long, contains a
sensor, light, and lens. When users roll their fingers over the device, it can
produce an 8-level monochrome
fingerprint
image at 600 dots per inch resolution, the two companies said
in a joint statement.

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To demonstrate the device, the companies built it into a prototype
cellular telephone handset.

On the Market

Hewlett-Packard became the first manufacturer to add biometric identity
checking to a mass-market consumer portable electronics device last year, when
it built a small fingerprint scanner into its
IPaq H5450
PDA.

That PDA, like many of the devices that Casio and Alps expect will use
their scanner, is targeted at business and corporate users.

The scanner is scheduled to enter mass production in October this year,
and the two companies are aiming for sales of $34 million in fiscal year 2004
and $68 million in fiscal year 2005. It is expected to cost around $83 per
unit.

Related Topics: Pocket PC-Based PDAs, Cell Phones

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