All the stories tagged with 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.
Motorola announces ELITE SILVER and ELITE FLIP Bluetooth headsets
10/14/2011, With the Motorola Droid RAZR/Spyder/HD expected to be announced on the 18th of October, perhaps you might want to get yourself a Bluetooth headset to go with it, and it just so happens that Motorola today has announced two new [...]
Nokia Luna Bluetooth headset launched
10/13/2011, Along with the Nokia 603 that was launched today, Nokia announced a brand new wireless Bluetooth headset called the Nokia Luna. And just like its previously launched Play 360 speakers, what sets the Nokia Luna Bluetooth headset from other wireless [...]
Nokia and Taiwan Taxi create world’s first NFC taxi booking service
10/11/2011, There are a whole load of uses for NFC technology, with the most common use being for making digital payments. Well it appears that the folks over in Taiwan Taxi have bigger plans for the technology. Together with Nokia, Taiwan [...]
Sonim announces trio of handsets
10/11/2011, Sonim phones are definitely tough when you compare them to the rest of the phones in the market, and recently their Sonim XP3300 Force picked up the Guinness World Record for surviving the longest freefall, but those achievements and laurels [...]
RIM unveils Blackberry Tag
10/10/2011, Prior to Blackberry 7, owners of Blackberry devices who wanted to swap contact information had to either scan the QR code of the other person’s Blackberry device or add them via the BB pin, but it looks like those days [...]
Samsung to launch London 2012 Olympic phone
10/06/2011, If you’re a fan of collecting souvenirs from events, performances or concerts, come the London 2012 Olympic games, you will be able to get your hands on a Samsung device which they’re touting to be an “iconic” Olympic phone. This [...]
Isis adds LG, Motorola, Samsung, RIM and Sony Ericsson to their supporters
09/28/2011, 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 [...]
Apple patent will let us pay parking meters with our iPhone
09/22/2011, NFC seems to be the buzzword as of late, what with Google launching their mobile payment service Google Wallet which uses the NFC chip in the Samsung Nexus S in order to conduct their transactions. While Apple has been rumored [...]
Google Wallet still not available to everyone
09/21/2011, Google Wallet launched nationwide on Monday, but it looks like the service is still not available to everyone yet – and no we’re not talking about consumers who don’t have a Nexus S 4G on Sprint. Despite the small number [...]
Samsung SHV-E120L specs leaked
09/21/2011, A while back the Samsung SHV-E120L was spotted on a NenaMark test. Not much was known at that time apart from its processor, which is a 1.5GHz Qualcomm processor, and its display resolution, which was listed as a pretty impressive [...]
Isis will support Android devices despite Google Wallet competition
09/21/2011, Before Google Wallet was even announced, back in 2010 Isis had announced plans to launch mobile payment services together with three of the nation’s largest carriers – AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. Oddly enough Sprint was not part of the partnership, [...]
Yale does NFC with their door locks
09/21/2011, Yale is one of the more trusted names when it comes to door locks, and with a wealth of experience behind the company, we are not surprised to see them roll out a new consumer-grade NFC-enabled door lock – so [...]
Sonim XP1301 Core NFC is most rugged NFC handset ever
09/20/2011, We do know that NFC (Near Field Communication) capability is getting integrated into more and more devices, but how many of those devices are still able to work after, say, dropping down onto a concrete floor from a storey high? [...]
