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.
Nexus S NFC Chip Currently Only Able To Read Data
12/14/2010, You might have been reading plenty of news about the NFC chip within the Nexus S and now word is out that the chip, supplied by NXP, currently only allows the phone to read data. This means that the phone [...]
Samsung SHW-A170K – first ever NFC phone in Korea
12/12/2010, We know that the two Koreas have been slugging it out quietly for the past few decades, and over the course of this ‘sibling rivalry’, the stock markets have suffered from time to time. Well, the technologically superior south has [...]
Google Distributes Places Decals With NFC For Nexus S Phones
12/09/2010, Google will be kicking off several marketing initiatives for its Hotpot and Places location-based services. The program will focus on Portland, Oregon, and provide Places kits to businesses. These kits include marketing materials to help businesses improve their online presence [...]
Samsung Develops NFC Chip With Embedded Flash Memory
12/01/2010, Samsung has announced that it has developed a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip that features embedded flash memory. That chip is slated to go into mass production in 2011 and is an advanced chip that features a low power design [...]
NFC Phones Replace Hotel Room Keys In Sweden
11/03/2010, NFC technology is definitely useful and we still have dreams of a NFC-supporting iPhone sometime in the future. Now the Clarion Hotel over in Stockholm is running a pilot program, allowing visitors to check in and collect their room key [...]
NFC antenna takes up less space than you can imagine
11/02/2010, Modern smartphones these days boast more antennas that you could possibly imagine, where the wonders of miniaturization has certainly made their mark in the size of the hardware you hold in the palm of your hand that would make even [...]
NFC-Enabled iPhone 5 to Turn Any Mac Near You Into Your Own?
11/01/2010, With talks of an NFC capable iPhone as part of Apple’s 2011 refresh, the natural evolution would be to use the embedded Near Field Communication chip as a digital wallet, but the proximity-aware chip may serve an added purpose to [...]
Nokia C7 has NFC chip within which remains unused at the moment
10/20/2010, Nokia’s C7, the second Symbian^3-powered device that has arrived in the market, has been discovered to carry an NFC (Near Field Communication) chip within. One thing about it though – it remains unused for the moment, making us wonder when [...]
KT Announces NFC-equipped Samsung SHW-A170K Phone
10/14/2010, While we’re still dreaming of a NFC (Near Field Communication) iPhone, South Korea has gone ahead and received its first phone equipped with NFC technology, thanks to KT unveiling the SHW-A170K phone using a NFC compatible USIM. An NFC phone [...]
Sony And HID Global To Unite FeliCa And NFC In Notebooks
10/12/2010, Sony and HID Global are planning to unite FeliCa and NFC (near-field communication) in notebooks. The setup will work on both formats, giving portable devices a convenient way of paying for items or signing in by just bringing a device [...]
Nokia Smartphone With RFID Hits The FCC?
08/19/2010, FCC filings for an unnamed Nokia smartphone show an interesting feature. Seems that Nokia has submitted a device that sports RFID support, which could possibly indicate the possibility of future mobile payments via your phone. The phone supports WCDMA on [...]
Rumor: Apple Already Testing Proximity-aware iPhones
08/17/2010, We recently got wind that Apple had hired an expert in Near Field Communications (NFC), leading many folks to speculate that Apple might be looking to allow the iPhone to double up as our digital wallet in the future. Now [...]
Is Near Field Communications Coming To The iPhone?
08/16/2010, Could Apple be looking to bring Near Field Communications (NFC) to its future iPhones? The fruity company has quietly hired Benjamin Vigier, a expert in said field and a person who has worked on mobile payment apps for PayPal, Sprint, [...]
