NFC(Near Field Communication) Technology: Latest Android iPhone Samsung HTC And Other Mobiles Now Have Enabled Chips

If you follow cellphones releasing this year, you might have surely heard about NFC (iPhone just junked it, you might remember it now). In the near future the world will be taken over by the near field no it's not the corn field across the road it is the Near Field Technology which gadget manufacturers, retailers and many other organizations hope will bring powerful new features to smartphones and much more.

So, tell us how good it is to shop at a nearest supermarket without any bankcards or cash? How better will it be to buy tickets at a metro station with a touch of mobile phone skipping the long queues?

Near Field Communication (NFC) technology is set to make this possibility. The customers who are carrying NFC phone can make payment transactions, interchange digital content and connect the devices with a touch or to a few centimeters.

Whats is NFC ?

Near field communication (NFC) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity, usually no more than a few centimetres. Present and anticipated applications include contact-less transactions, data exchange, and simplified setup of more complex communications such as Wi-Fi.

NFC standards cover communications protocols and data exchange formats, and are based on existing radio-frequency identification (RFID) standards including ISO/IEC 14443 and FeliCa.

Uses of NFC ?

Access Control: Replacing traditional keys for either physical access (hotel room) or control (starting a car)
Ticketing: Replacing paper tickets for social events and public transportation
Contact-less Payments: Mobile payments debited from financial or MNO linked accounts
Interactive World: Marketing and exchange of information such as schedules, maps, business card and coupon delivery using NFC Marketing tags
Media Sharing: Transfer images, videos, music between mobile phones
Social media e.g. "Like" on Facebook, "Follow" on Twitter via NFC smart stickers in retail stores

NF is not a newfangled technology but it has made it tot the mainstream products just like smartphones.With an NFC chip and antenna, you can use your smartphone to make con-tactless payments.
What's more, with NFC, you can bump smartphones to exchange information with friends or business colleagues, or use your phone to read smart tags.
You can even use NFC to connect to secure networks without having to enter complex authorization codes.

Ultimately, NFC makes it a whole lot easier to perform a huge range of digitized tasks.

Is it Secure ?

Fundamentally resreachers believe that NFC is seecure because of its short range. So if a hacker wants to snag into your NFC signal he must have to be in a closed proximity, or may be very close in other words, you'd know they were there.

Available NFC phones in the market ?

BlackBerry Bold 9790
BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930
BlackBerry Curve 9350,
BlackBerry Curve 936
BlackBerry Curve 9370
BlackBerry Curve 9380
Samsung Galaxy NexusGoogle Nexus 7
Google Nexus S
HTC Desire C
HTC Droid Incredible 4G
HTC Evo 4G LTE
HTC Incredible
HTC One X
HTC Ruby
Optimus 3D Max LG Optimus 4X HD
LG Optimus Elite
LG Optimus L5
Motorola Droid Razr
Motorola MC75A HF
Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE
Nokia 603
Nokia 701
Nokia 801T
Nokia 808 Pureview
Nokia C7Nokia N9
Porsche Design P'9981 by BlackBerry
LG Prada
Samsung Ace 2
Samsung Galaxy Mini 2
Samsung Galaxy Note
Samsung Galaxy S
Galaxy S Blaze 4G
Galaxy S II
Samsung Galaxy S III
Samsung S5260 NFC
Samsung SHW-A170K
Samsung Wave 578
Samsung Wave M
Samsung Wave Y
Sony Xperia Ion
Sony Xperia P
Sony Xperia S

However, people who do not have this NFC available phone can get a NFC Poken device. The information can be seamlessly exchanged between any of the NFC devices. It can be two NFC Poken devices or between a phone and a device or between a Poken tag and a NFC mobile.
There are many other smartphone who will be soon getting NFC technology in their arsenal.

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Sep 21, 2012