Isis adds LG, Motorola, Samsung, RIM and Sony Ericsson to their supporters

By Tyler Lee on 09/28/2011, filed in Home > CellPhones

Isis adds LG, Motorola, Samsung, RIM and Sony Ericsson to their supporters Despite Isis announcing plans for a mobile payment system way before Google did, Google managed to get their service, Google Wallet, out of the door way before Isis did, but unfortunately Google Wallet only has Sprint as its partner, and at the moment the Nexus S is the only device that can fully utilize Google Wallet’s services. The good news for those not on Sprint or who don’t own a Nexus S, is that Isis has announced several new supports to their mobile payment system.

According to the press release, Isis has managed to get the big names in phone manufacturers LG, Motorola Mobility, RIM, Samsung Mobile, Sony Ericsson to implement Isis’s NFC technology and standards in their future handsets. It’s unknown if this deal is exclusive (which could give Isis the edge over Google Wallet), but considering Samsung is in their list and the Nexus S is by Samsung, it seems unlikely. Isis has managed to generate quite a bit of excitement with this piece of news, but unfortunately the company has yet to detail what sort of technology and services they plan to implement in the future.

LG: LG Corporation is a South Korean conglomerate that is based in Seoul. LG operates a number of subsidiaries including LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Telecom, and LG Chem. The conglomerate specializes in developing electronics, telecom products, and chemicals. LG Corp. was founded in 1947 by Koo In-Hwoi. Koo first established Lak-Hui Chemical Industrial Corp. in 1947. Today, Lak-Hui (pronounced lucky) is known as LG Chem. The company then expanded its business and created Goldstar Co. Ltd, now known as LG Electronics Inc. Both companies merged and formed Lucky-Goldstar, which was eventually renamed “LG” in 1995.

Motorola: Motorola is an American telecommunication company that has been split in two: Motorola Mobility (now a Google company) and Motorola Solutions. Motorola Mobility now focuses on handsets and set top boxes, while Motorola Solutions works on infrastructure and enterprise products. Motorola Mobility's best products are the Motorola RAZR M, RAZR HD, and RAZR Maxx HD. In Europe, Motorola has partnered with Intel to build the Motorola RAZR i.

NFC: stands for Near Field Communication, which is a standard for low-speed wireless short range communications between electronic devices. Popular applications of NFC are public transportation passes and some form of electronic wallet, but many more applications remains to be tested and implemented. NFC is a cousin of RFID and uses some of the same communications protocols.

RIM: RIM is the acronym for Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry brand. RIM was founded in the mid 90s by Mike Lazaridis and with Jim Balsillie and went IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 1998. Its claim to fame was to make mobile email really effective and enterprises quickly adopted its devices and associated software and services which were highly lucrative. With the rise of iOS and Android devices, the BlackBerry franchise bumped into trouble and its decline prompted RIM to take a radical step by overhauling its BlackBerry operating system (OS) completely with QNX. The first version of the QNX BlackBerry OS is BlackBerry 10 or BB10.

Samsung: Samsung is a South-Korean conglomerate which counts many subsidiaries like Samsung Electronics, which you probably know very well, but also Samsung Heavy Industries which builds ships, or Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung Securities and many more. Samsung is responsible for an amazing 20% of South Korea's exports. In the consumer electronics world, Samsung has gone from being a company with a reputation for cheap products to becoming one of the most respected companies in the world.

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