All the stories tagged with: nfc
Samsung to Drop Plastic IDs for NFC Smartphones at its HQ
04/25/2012, With NFC being used primarily for financial transactions and endeavors like file transfers like with the Android Beam feature, it seems that Samsung has found yet another use for the technology that is still at its ‘maturing’ stage. All employees [...]
Nokia Lumia 610 NFC Officially Being Launched on Orange UK in Q3
04/11/2012, Following an earlier leak about the NFC variant of Nokia’s Lumia 610, the Finnish mobile giant has gone ahead and made the device official. The handset will first launch in the UK through Orange in Q3 of this year. This [...]
Lumia 800 hiding NFC under the bonnet [Not confirmed]
03/20/2012, WPBench, the benchmarking app for Windows Phone 7 listed the Lumia 610 with a NFC label. While there is no basis of truth in the nugget of information, a twitter ‘conversation’ between a fan and Nokia Hong Kong hinted that [...]
Apple patent reveals plans for mobile payment services
03/08/2012, With lots of handset manufacturers starting to introduce NFC capabilities to their devices, it’s starting to look like mobile payment services might actually start taking off in a big way and may no longer be consigned to a mere novelty [...]
LG Optimus LTE Tag announced with NFC support
02/20/2012, If you’re in the market for a new Android smartphone, LG has recently announced the LG Optimus LTE Tag, which is basically the original Optimus LTE with NFC support that when paired with the LG NFC tag+, will turn your [...]
Google Wallet now official for AT&T’s Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus
02/03/2012, If you are looking forward to seeing what NFC can achieve in terms of mobile payment services, but you’re not a Sprint subscriber and you don’t own the Nexus S 4G, the good news is that Google Wallet seems to [...]
Google Wallet can be installed on the Galaxy Nexus hack-free
12/19/2011, Many had expected Google Wallet to make its way onto the Galaxy Nexus, after all it was a Nexus device so it wasn’t completely unreasonable to expect Google’s products and services to come installed, right? Unfortunately Galaxy Nexus owners will [...]
Microsoft confirms NFC support in Windows Phone 7
12/12/2011, NFC is a standard that some industries are attempting to standardize, such as Google with their Google Wallet mobile payment services and ISIS, who has teamed up with Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile to provide mobile payment services of their own. [...]
Verizon explains absence of Google Wallet on the Galaxy Nexus
12/07/2011, So we know that Google Wallet functionality will not be available on the Galaxy Nexus. Given the partnership between Google and Sprint for Google Wallet, we guess we can’t say we’re surprised to find out that Verizon will not be [...]
No Google Wallet for the Galaxy Nexus?
12/06/2011, If you’re looking forward to mobile payment services on your phone, the good news is that you have services to choose from such as Google Wallet and ISIS (which has yet to launch in an official capacity). The bad news [...]
Google Wallet headed to more vending machines near you
12/02/2011, Good news Nexus S owners! If you’ve been looking for more ways to utilize the Google Wallet feature on your phone, the good news is that Cantaloupe Systems has been working with several vending machine operators in the San Francisco, [...]
NFC technology can be used to identify knockoff products
11/15/2011, There are a lot of knock off products to be had these days. All one would have to do is take a stroll in the night markets in Hong Kong and China and you will have no problems finding yourself [...]
PayPal Android app updated with NFC support
11/09/2011, It was reported a while back that PayPal was planning on add NFC capabilities to their Android app. This would allow NFC capable handsets to simply tap each other in order to conduct a transaction. We’re guessing this would be [...]
