As if your cell phone wasn’t busy enough, what with all your text messaging and porn downloading, XM and Sirius are now proposing to turn it into a remote control for their respective
satellite radio services.
Details are in a patent application filed last week by a firm named Interoperable Technologies and jointly assigned to competitors XM and Sirius. The application sees a proliferation of multi-subscription satellite radio households, which will need separate car, home, office and school receivers to ensure uninterrupted access to Howard
Stern poop jokes.
Instead of forcing customers to juggle multiple subscription codes, the patent application foresees equipping radios with dongles that would let subscribers use a Bluetooth-empowered PDA or cell phone to control basic functions. The portable device will store data on your various subscriptions and automatically connect with the correct code. And they’ll be smart and secure enough to prevent you from programming a neighbor’s radio to get nothing but Martha Stewart and Barry Manilow.
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