MONACO, Monaco – Nokia today unveiled it’s third Near Field Communication (NFC) handset in the shape of the new Nokia 6216 classic.
If you’re coming to all this cold, NFC is a new breed of technology that lets you tap a handset against any other NFC-enabled device or tag to pay for stuff securely, perform ticketing transactions and share content.
The reason today’s release of the Nokia 6216 classic is particularly significant in enabling NFC to mature, and blend more prominently into the array of mobile services out there, is that this is the first SIM-based NFC device. This means that operators can now build NFC services directly onto the SIM card, paving the way for widespread touch to pay and ticketing opportunities.
Jeremy Belostock is the guy heading up NFC at Nokia. Click through to read what he has to say, and to watch videos of Jeremy talking about how NFC works and the benefits of this new strain of technology.
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GLOBAL – With all the excitement of last week’s The Way We Live Next event, an interesting titbit of news eeked out without us noticing (punish us now!). Regulars will know all about our penchant for all things touchless (and our apparent Haphophobia) so we’re treating the news as good that Visa and Nokia are working together to bring Visa payment and “payment related services” to new devices, starting with the soon to be available 6212 Classic.
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LONDON, England – I got pretty excited when the London-based NFC trial kicked off a while back. Sure, I was a bit gutted not to be a triallist, but knowing a few people who were, made it interesting enough. Quick recap – Nokia, O2, Barclaycard, Visa Europe, TranSys, AEG and Transport for London got together to try out contactless payments across London.
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INTERNATIONAL – As a member of the Nokia Design Studio research team, Younghee Jung is on the vanguard of behavioural science and if you pop along to her blog you’ll discover all manner of ruminations and insights into how we interact with our mobile devices.
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ESPOO, Finland – This week Nokia launched another NFC phone. NFC stands for ‘Near Field Communication’, a short-range radio-based data exchange technology. While NFC refers to a particular standard, you probably use something similar with tags such as bus cards, ski passes, or corporate access keys that you use by touching to a surface.
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LONDON, UK – My recent chat with Jeremy Belostock, Head of NFC at Nokia, about the future of Near Field Communication, helped reinforce a personal belief that touch-to-pay and NFC has the potential to permanently alter the way we behave with our phones, and that it can in fact have a significantly positive environmental effect.
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LONDON, UK – Earlier today we caught up with Jeremy Belostock, the man at the helm of Near Field Communication for Nokia.
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ESPOO, Finland – Near Field Communications, and the whole tap-to-pay and tap-to-share concept, is an exciting twist on the mobile convergence theme. But it’s felt somewhat anonymous without an attractive flagship device to associate with it, and something to ground the concept in a day-to-day reality.
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LONDON, England - This week the world of Near Field Communications (NFC) will descend on a London hotel to discuss the future of contact-less payment, new technology and (possibly) whether or not they’ll be having another beer after dinner.
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MONACO, Monaco – Nokia today unveiled it’s third Near Field Communication (NFC) handset in the shape of the new Nokia 6216 classic.
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