Near Field Communications Handsets and Tags, NFC Pilots and Projects

Nokia releases 'tangible' NFC-enabled mobile games

Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Nokia Research Center is releasing three new games for NFC-enabled Symbian mobile phones that involve tangible real world objects tagged with NFC.

According to Nokia, all you need to play is a Symbian handset (Nokia models C7-00, C7 Astound, 600, 603, 700, or 701) and a few NFC tags, which may be any card with a contactless chip already in your wallet, such as transit cards, ID badges, payment cards and so on.


The first game, Nokia World Flags, is a new take on the classic matching game. Instead of flipping playing cards over, the game asks that you to wave your phone over NFC cards to “magically” reveal the hidden flag.

With Shakespeare Shuffle, the player waves their phone over the NFC cards to play parts of famous quotes from Shakespeare. The player must rearrange the sections and tap them in the right order to complete the quotes before time runs out.

Nokia Nursery Rhyme Shuffle is a kid’s version of Shakespeare Shuffle that uses nursery rhymes from Mother Goose paired with artwork from the early 1900’s.

Nokia says they are currently working on word games, math games, adventure games, NFC-enabled variations on old board games, and even some games that can be played with a teddy bear, as seen in the video.

“Our real goal in releasing [the games] is to show the potential of NFC,” said Nokia on their beta labs page. “From here, there are so many possibilities, especially in educational games, family games, and social games. This is just the beginning.” [end] 

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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.

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

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Samsung and Visa are providing their sponsored athletes and trialists at the London 2012 Olympic Games with special edition Samsung Galaxy S III handsets equipped with Visa’s payWave NFC payments application.

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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.

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