NFC, or near field communication, change the way consumers make purchases, to enable wireless transactions made using electronic devices, such as the iPhone, but might not iPhone specially simply yet. Earlier this week, reports from the operators ' wireless UK Apple would skip NFC suggested in the next revision of the iPhone. According to sources, Apple was "refers to the lack of clear standard in the industry", and that the company hoped to incorporate NFC iPhone in 2012. Yet a new report by the Kyrgyz, claiming that the iPhone 5 will actually be the NFC after all. But which is accurate?
That the first report is a controlled leak, which sets expectations for technology partners and is also consistent with other recent events concerning Apple and the NFC. In the January job list for employment in Apple focusing on wireless payment occurred, construction on rental related in 2010. It takes time to integrate the main technology of new products. No wonder the iPad 2 was launched without the NFC in March, and 5 are expected to make the iPhone tech iPad 2. Makes sense, then iPhone 6 in 2012 would be the first device iOS to NFC. The only problem is that such a timeline, you can place the Apple year for competition.
Citing "people familiar with the project", Bloomberg is reporting that Google plans to begin testing the payment by mobile phone in New York and San Francisco in a period of four months. Thousands of special cash registers will be installed in the stores to be used in conjunction with Android devices, most likely S Nexus, (which already NFC built-in) and connect the "financial account information, Gift card balances, loyalty card and coupon magazine subscriptions in a single chip NFC phone."
Going a step further than the test RIM CEO Jim Balsillie announced at Mobile World Congress, that "many, if not most," BlackBerry launched in the course of this year, NFC. With NFC, RIM expanded on this statement, confirming the company wants to "to build an ecosystem of try and take advantage of this technology so all of us can use and have a much more interactive capabilities in our life and our equipment." RIM by aggressive movement to NFC apparently has gotten the attention of the wireless carriers. According to The Wall Street Journal, the carriers as Rogers in Canada is the data stored on the SIM card, rather than equipment and that it is "be a little fight" involved in determining which strategy ultimately WINS.
That kind of tumult over the NFC in smartphones really means this technology is far from "standard in the industry", but Apple really want to Google and RIM, let alone wireless carriers, getting the first and possibly the deciding say on how mobile payment definitively are supported? Apple has already more than 200 million iTunes Store accounts with credit cards on file, and the NFC seems like the last step in controlled Apple payment system. All necessary company going to throw his hat in the ring is a device. And NFC is not confined only to the payment by mobile phone. There are many other uses of the tech, too.
There is a new reason to believe that the NFC will actually issuing the iPhone 5, at least according to the latest Forbes. Source source (Yes, you read that right), who allegedly runs on Apple, "believes" iPhone 5 will have the NFC. Taking into account the potential money making electronic and impact on the viability of mobile platform, which is not much to go on, but until June, which may be all you get. Hopefully, we could not finish the need to wait until June 2012 to learn about Apple's plans for the NFC.
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