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February 06, 2005

China's Ningbo Bird to market fingerprint ID handsets

China's Ningbo Bird to market fingerprint ID handsets - Yahoo! UK & Ireland News

SHANGHAI (AFP) - Chinese mobile phone maker Ningbo Bird has unveiled the country's first fingerprint identification phone, which guarantees security for Internet-based transactions, state press reported.

Ningbo Bird's phone is thought to be reliable enough to ensure information security on the Internet, which would create a new channel for shopping, banking or securities trading on the web, Xinhua news agency reported.
"As a self-developed technology, it will be particularly useful to e-government, which demands information security," said Jin Guangtao, Ningbo Bird's vice-president.

The phone, expected to go into mass production soon, was jointly developed by Ningbo Bird, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing-based Digital Fingerpass Technology Co.

The company, which had estimated sales revenue of one billion yuan (120 million dollars) last year, claims to be the third in world to develop such technology after South Korea and Japan, the report said.

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