Near Field Communications Handsets and Tags, NFC Pilots and Projects

New Nokia phone could (finally) herald commercial NFC deployments

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Even though full commercial deployment of NFC is a ways off–by some estimates several years away–one handset manufacturer well positioned to take advantage of the new technology when it does go mainstream is Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia.

Its newest NFC phone, the Nokia 6216 Classic is its first commercial NFC device incorporating the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) single wire protocol standard (SWP), says Damien Balsan, Nokia’s head of NFC Business Development.

At first the phone will be deployed primarily in Europe and Asia since that is where most of the NFC projects are taking place, says Balsan. “However, we also hope that some carriers in the Americas will use the phone for their NFC roll outs or pre-commercial deployments.”

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