Two recent Apple patents may further enhance present and future iPhones in new ways big and small. One of the patents formalizes a method of wireless activation that would make it easier for consumers to activate phones with different carriers as well as reduce the need for SIM cards, while another imagines the iPhone's touchscreen as a radio-frequency identifier (RFID) key, making it possible for iPhones to things such as open hotel doors or initiate data transfers with a particular movement.
