Near Field Communications Handsets and Tags, NFC Pilots and Projects

Nokia to add NFC to all future devices

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Nokia vice president Ilari Nurmi has announced that the company plans to embed all future devices with NFC technology, according to Thinq.co.uk.

Speaking at the Thailand launch of Nokia’s three new NFC-enabled handsets, Nurmi declared, “From now on, all of our products will have an NFC chip inside. All other NFC-equipped devices can also link to our products.”


According to Thinq, this announcement encompasses Nokia’s Symbian models, as well as the forthcoming Windows phones.

Nokia has focused a lot of attention on NFC lately, with the aforementioned trio of budget NFC handsets, the launch of its own NFC online store, and an NFC tag pilot at the Museum of London.

Read more here[end] 

MasterCard has certified a slew of NFC-enabled smart phones for use with MasterCard PayPass contactless payment technology.

Newly certified devices include: BlackBerry Bold 9790, BlackBerry Curve 9380, HTC One X, Intel Smartphone Reference Device, LG Viper 4G LTE, LG Optimus Elite, Nokia 603, Nokia Lumia 610 NFC, Samsung Wave Y, Samsung Galaxy mini 2, Samsung Galaxy S Advance, Samsung Galaxy Nexus (GT-i9250), Sony Xperia S, Sony Xperia P and Sony Xperia sola.

read more »

Nokia has announced that an NFC version of its new Lumia 610 smart phone will soon be available in Europe through mobile operator Orange.

read more »

Nokia is launching a commercial trial of its PagSeguro NFC payments app in Brazil, the company announced via its official blog.

Starting in May, owners of Nokia C7, N9 and 701 handsets will be able to use PagSeguro to pay for items at NFC-enabled points of sale, as well as transfer funds between users.

read more »

Global teleco vendor Comarch announced that it will begin offering NFC technology in its portfolio of products and services, starting with an NFC-enabled art exhibit in the National Museum in Krakow, Poland.

read more »

Be first to comment...
Comment on this article

Your full name and URL will be displayed with your comment.

Your email is not shown or shared, and is used only for your Gravatar image.




characters left.