“NFC” Articles

Check out this video demo at CTIA Wireless 2011 of the Nokia C7 running a full version of BCard Reader, which allows the built in NFC chip on the Nokia C7 to read information from an NFC compatible business card. The app also has some cool features of its own. Video after the break.

Here’s a couple of video demo’s from Qt at Mobile World Congress2011 in Barcelona. First up is Qt’s WebKit integration and some HTML5 apps. Secondly Qt showcases it’s potential when it comes to NFC, utilizing an app created be Digia called ShopWizer on a Nokia C7. Hit the jump for the demo’s.

Nokia has decided to scrap what could have been its third NFC handset, the Nokia 6216, due to the quality of the consumer experience not being what it hoped for. The Nokia 6216 would have also been the first NFC handset to have handed over control of the payment system to the Service Provider’s SIM card through SWP (Single Wire Protocol). SWP is the exact architecture that China Unicom is expected to be deploying later this year.