Articles Tagged “NFC”
Confirmed: quad-core Krait-equipped LG LS970 comes with removable battery and NFC
by Bams Sadewo on May 18, 2012 11 Comments">11
We’re still out of breath from marveling at the awesomeness that is LG LS970 — aka the Eclipse — and its mind-blowing specs. It looks like the excitement won’t end there. Brief Mobile has received yet more details of the phone that’s enough to seal its place in our heart as “the next phone to be fawned over for the next couple of months” – now that both Samsung and HTC have released their flagship offerings. While earlier pictures showed the back of the LG LS970 and had folks making assumptions that it’d come with an embedded battery, a new …
MasterCard PayPass certifies 17 smartphones for NFC use, including the HTC One X and the Nexus
by Adrian Diaconescu on May 07, 2012 1 Comments">1
Photo.bugz/Flickr By now, we should have been able to make contactless payments with pretty much any mobile phone, at just about any supermarket or restaurant. Or at least that’s what many of us expected for 2012. Unfortunately, NFC payment technology has been slow to progress over the past couple of years. There are still relatively few smartphones enabled for NFC use, while mobile payment systems, like Google Wallet, have been experiencing security issues of all sorts. However, we have some good news to report today on this front – MasterCard has announced the certification of 17 new smartphones for its …
Mobile payments to take off in Canada by the end of 2012
by Mike Andrici on Apr 30, 2012 1 Comments">1
In a previous article we published a few days back, we talked about how smartphone payments are expected to replace cash and credit cards as the main payment method by the end of this decade. Following up, if a recent report from Reuters is to be believed, Canada is poised to be there first, as the invasion of smartphone payments is expected to commence there as soon as by the end of this year. According to Reuters, Canada is currently the leader in developing smartphone payment methods, a title won thanks to the high number of retailers and smartphone owners …
Paying with smartphones to outpace credit cards & cash by 2020, experts say
by Mike Andrici on Apr 19, 2012 2 Comments">2
Cash? Forget it. Credit cards? How dated. More than two thirds of technology insiders believe that paying with smartphones will overtake both credit card payments and cash payments by the year 2020. Incredible as it may sound, Near Field Communications (NFC) technology is expected to build enough inertia over the this decade to cement its role in our daily lives. Is this possible? Read on. Governments love this stuff! The survey – conducted by the Pew Research Center and Elon Univeristy – noted that most companies already involved in financial services market will try to resist the shift towards NFC …
Unlocking and enabling NFC capability on AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note SGH-I717
by Carl Parker on Apr 18, 2012 0 Comments">0
The future is creeping up on us and we really should keep up. If you’ve ever heard of NFC, you’ve probably wondered what it means. NFC stands for “Near Field Communication” and is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish communication with each other by either touching them together or bringing them into close proximity. Through NFC, you can transfer data between two devices, such as contacts, photos, videos, or files. You can even engage other people in a multi-player game. One Swedish company is even testing the use of NFC-enabled smartphones to function as hotel …
Google and Apple may replace your bank in the future
by Ankit Banerjee on Mar 15, 2012 4 Comments">4
“Make your phone your wallet” is the popular tag line used by Google to entice consumers to use Google Wallet, its digital payment system. Is “Make your phone your bank” the next step in this technological rat race? Imagine a future where employees receive their paychecks by swiping their phones over an NFC (Near Field Communication) sensor on their way out of the office, where getting on a bus involves pointing your phone at a machine, and paying for lunch implies a swipe of your smartphone, and maybe a review on yelp.com. On the flip side, that’s also a future where late-night muggers …
Top Smartphone Trends We Witnessed at Mobile World Congress 2012
by Gene Briones on Mar 01, 2012 0 Comments">0
It’s easy to get lost in the sea of Android news, updates, hands-on’s, and gadget releases that seemingly never stop. With the frenetic pace that mobile technology is advancing, it’s very difficult to slow down and look at the big picture. This is precisely why we’d like to pause for a while, and talk about the top smartphone trends that we observed at this year’s highly acclaimed Mobile World Congress. We’ve been up and running all this time, covering the latest events at MWC. But don’t you think now is the perfect time to get a bird’s eye view of …
Moneto Provides Answer for Non-NFC Capable Devices
by Christine Torralba on Feb 21, 2012 0 Comments">0
One thing I really hate about signing up with a two-year contract is not being able to change my phone when a new one comes out; especially if it is a lot better than the phone I’m currently locked with. With all this talk about NFC capability, it is understandable why there are so many people who are getting interested in joining this bandwagon. But if you’re like me who has to wait for another couple of years before changing your phone, what do you do? Fortunately, Moneto has addressed an answer to us! Moneto has made near-field communication chips …
AT&T Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S Are Now Able to Install Google Wallet
by Lucian Armasu on Feb 02, 2012 0 Comments">0
Well, isn’t this a surprise? It looks like one of the main backers of Isis, the carrier owned mobile payment service, is finally allowing Google Wallet on its NFC phones. The truth is this shouldn’t have been a surprise in the first place. Google Wallet should’ve been allowed from the beginning, otherwise this is a dangerous precedent for carriers if they get to “vet” what kind of applications are allowed on the market. It’s especially more dangerous if those apps are supposed to compete with one of their own services. I think NFC is a revolutionary technology, and if the …
How to Add Facebook Friends by Tapping Two NFC Phones Together
by Paul Nuñal on Dec 31, 2011 1 Comments">1
Near Field Communication (NFC) technology has become the next big thing these days as many manufacturers are bringing the technology into many of their mobile phones. If you ever thought that NFC-enabled phones are primarily being used for wiring monetary transactions, well, think again. While the majority of Android phone users are beginning to adopt Google Wallet as a means for wirelessly paying for their purchases, don’t you know that you can also do other neat stuff with your NFC-enabled phone like adding friends to your Facebook account? For the latter, you have the Add Friend (Facebook) app available …
Why Verizon Is Blocking Google Wallet on Galaxy Nexus
by Lucian Armasu on Dec 07, 2011 1 Comments">1
We’ve heard rumors about Verizon blocking Google Wallet on Galaxy Nexus a while ago, and while this is as anti-competitive as it gets, especially after the new open spectrum and net neutrality rules that Google helped push, they manage to pull this off by having Google not make the app available in the first place. If the app is not available, it means they are off the hook. There are 2 reasons why they would want to do this. The first one is the most shameless one, and it’s because they want their upcoming mobile payment app Isis, which is …
Top 5 NFC-equipped Android Smartphones
by Paul Nuñal on Nov 30, 2011 2 Comments">2
The popularity of phones that support Near Field Communication (NFC) is rapidly gaining momentum, with handset manufacturers starting to produce more and more devices that support NFC technology. NFC-enabled devices work in tandem. The technology is similar to how Bluetooth technology works, but NFC is less on power consumption and connection interruption. The technology works like this: whenever an NFC-enabled device is close to another NFC-enabled device, it triggers the NFC sensors on both devices and allows both devices to send messages to each other. Futuristic as it may sound, NFC devices are growing and it won’t be soon before …
Fast Company: NFC Adoption to Surge in 2012
by Carl Parker on Nov 17, 2011 0 Comments">0
By next year, the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) is expected to boom everywhere around the world–except the United States–according to online business magazine Fast Company. Kulveer Taggar, one of the founders of Tagstand, told Fast Company that he observes slow adoption of NFC technology in the U.S. “We haven’t seen that much in the U.S. I’d say 30% U.S., 70% international,” said Taggar. He notes that most of the early uses of NFC in the U.S. seem to be advertising-centric, a “mix between loyalty retail and coupons,” where users use NFC to access more product/service info or to …
Inside Secure Creates NFC Solution to Identify Knockoff Products
by Conan Hughes on Nov 16, 2011 0 Comments">0
Ever wanted to prove that your handbags, bottles of wine, and watches worth beyond US$1,000 are authentic? Using your NFC-enabled smartphone, you can do just that with Inside Secure’s new security module that utilizes Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. The French semiconductor company introduced early this month one of its “solutions for securing transactions and digital identity.” Called the VaultIC 150, the NFC-based security chip can be attached by manufacturers to their products for tracking sales, as well as letting customers verify that they are buying the real thing. The chip, which works by responding to random challenge messages, comes …
Brand Table Speeds Up Fast Food Service Via NFC Technology
by Matthew Sabatini on Oct 24, 2011 0 Comments">0
Near Field Communication (NFC) technology has been talked about for a while now. However, no one has truly shown what they can do with this new technology. Just recently, S-Digital has done just the opposite of that with its new product called Brand Table. You can obviously tell by the name that S-Digital will be improving the fast-food industry. The new technology takes new NFC-capable smartphones such as the Galaxy Nexus, and allows for hungry people to go to “Brand Tables” to scan their phones. After doing just that, the fast food company’s menu will appear on the users’ phone …
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