Nokia says all of its smartphones will support NFC starting next year
By Donald Melanson 
posted June 18th 2010 5:57PM
posted June 18th 2010 5:57PM
posted June 18th 2010 5:57PM
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Read No Fat Chicks! Hands off. NFC FTW
@Runawaywill Haha I was about to post the same thing!
2011? They couldn't slap one into the N8?
@pika2000
The N8 comes out in 2010 and NFC is hardware dependent. So no, they couldn't.
At last. They launched trials here in Nice, France, a first in Europe (or so they say) and having to swap my Nexus One or my N900 for a Samsung Player One just to use the services is terribly frustrating.
@Gobelet
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/iphone_nfc/
Might help you?
@Gobelet They actually launched a trial here in Vienna like 1,5-2 years ago as well ^^
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What about some more details on NFC then? Engadget?
@SeeKo NFC is a short-range communication technology, its main use is as a mobile payment method, mostly for public transport now
@ChrisSsk
We have a mobile payment system for public transport in my city (Ljubljana in Slovenia) and it works with all phones without NFC.
I'm not sure about the exact technical details, but it involves calling a number and touching the validator with your phone.
nobody here probably speaks slovenian, but you can see what's happening in the animation: http://www.moneta.si/predstavitev/postopek_placevanja/lpp
At last. We have trials in Nice, France (a Eurpean first or so they say) and it is terribly frustrating to have to swap my Nexus One or my N900 for a Samsung Player One to use tge service.
@Gobelet whoops, looks like Engadget's mobile application won't refresh immediately...
Quick Nokia, you have to bolt down everything before apple comes in and steals the tech again, perhaps in one year we will have ten engadget posts about this new Apple NFS tech :(
@Techtrino You mean like Google stole everything from Symbian^1 and ^2 and slapped it onto its data collecting OS which even can’t scroll properly?
Thought so.
@Techtrino
True, but as much as I hate to say it, if Apple takes up NFC, it'll be a huge boost to the technology as far as social acceptance here in the US.
@magadget
No, google only do software, apple steals hardware tech and software.
@paul34
Well apple is very small on he phone market, and the people that buy its products are IMO not people that are very interrested in tech nor productivity. I.e the people I know who has Iphones are my 12 year old niece, my mother and a couple of girls :D I think apple fans are more interrested in looking cool than actually having a god phone. And I think very few will argue that any iPhone is a good phone, internet browser perhaps, and easy to use, but not very good at making calls, standby time, taking a beating in a bag etc
my "biggest commintment" is spillung
I'm still looking for an actual quote for this. All About Symbian knew to tell that S^3 does not even support NFC so N8 won't have it and I doubt that every "smart phone" Nokia releases next year will run S^4 or MeeGo.
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/11690_NFC_in_select_Nokia_smartphone.php
@vpuik
Yup. It's in S^4 devices to begin with although there's no reason why it can't be in S^3 as the trial phones were Series 40 featurephones.
@vpuik
Shouldnt be too diffucult to slap NFC support to S^3
@vpuik
That's right, i think someone originally misquoted Ansi's words.
I think AllAboutSymbian has more trustworthy news than any other site. AAS says that it will not be in all smartphone, but selected ones.
My 3 years old Nokia 6131 have NFC, but there is no way to use it.
Uhm whats NFC?
@MoonWalkerCTE Nvm found it
So basically Nokia is saying "SCREW YOU" to the
Bills
Dolphins
Patriots
Jets
Ravens
Bengals
Browns
Steelers
Texans
Colts
Jaguars
Titans
Broncos
Chiefs
Raiders
Chargers
@nuohk
Do you blame them? I would too.
@nuohk Well, the Raiders do suck
From what I have read, it sounds like NFC is similar to Bluetooth in terms of purpose.
Do we really need another communications standard??
@Hazdaz
That's not true, NFC is RFID tech, you can use for micro-payments, you can't use bluetooth for that.
@Hazdaz
Not quite. Do you have or have you ever seen those credit cards that have RFID tags in them, and you can just touch them to a reader to "swipe" the card? That's NFC.
American Express has it on their "Blue" card (I think that's what it's called... the clear one with the blue square in the middle), Visa has PayWave, and MasterCard has PayPass. I don't think Discover has any sort of NFC tech.
@Hazdaz
NFC requires comparably low power as Bluetooth V4.0 low energy protocol. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Field_Communication)
anything that keeps my cellphone going has my vote.
already available since 2004 in Japan
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/service/convenience/index.html
Nokia makes smartphones?
@chris2
just like front facing camera and mms and multitasking
@chris2
With flash too..
@chris2
with full multitasking to boot.
@chris2, and has been doing that since 1996 (Nokia 9000). Actually, Nokia was the first company to bring the concept to the masses, after the IBM's initial idea. The torch was then taken by Ericsson (they've coined the term), and then in collaboration with Nokia, Symbian was born, and Ericsson produced the first compact touch-screen smartphone - P800. The first modern-type smartphone was built by Nokia - Nokia 7650 - in 2002, followed shortly by 6600, 6620... and then the N series... And all of those supported 99% things that modern smartphones support. And even things that some of the competitors today do not support or somewhat support - i.e. internet tethering, video calling, advanced BT profiles... Not to mention copy/paste, MMS, vCards, true multitasking and such things that took years for today competitors to somewhat implement.
Now please go back to the understone you've crawled out from.
When posting articles about new technologies, probably would be a good editorial move to give a sentence about what you're talking about so we don't have to google it.