What’s NFC some of you may ask. Personaly if I come across an article with an acronym I may not recognize, I’d like to know quickly what it stands for. Well I’ll be happy to enlighten you all that are not up-to-date on the meaning of these three little letters.
Near field communication (NFC): A short-range high frequency wireless communication technology which enables the exchange of data between devices.
So this information from Juniper Research is telling us that 1 in 5 smartphones will be NFC capable by 2014. I can’t say if that’s a stretch or wishful thinking, but it would be cool, if this was the case. And just a note, here in the US the Nexsus S was the first phone to be capable of using NFC. Hit the break for a few things that would make our lives easier if NFC became a part of future devices.
- Card emulation: the NFC device behaves like an existing contactless card
- Reader mode: the NFC device is active and reads a passive RFID tag, for example for interactive advertising
- P2P mode: two NFC devices communicating together and exchanging information.
- Mobile ticketing in public transport: an extension of the existing contactless infrastructure, such as Mobile Phone Boarding Pass.[2]
- Bluetooth pairing: in the future, pairing of Bluetooth 2.1 devices with NFC support will be as easy as bringing them close together and accepting the pairing. The process of activating Bluetooth on both sides, searching, waiting, pairing and authorization will be replaced by simply bringing the mobile phones close to each other.
- Smart poster: the mobile phone is used to read RFID tags on outdoor billboards.
- Mobile payment: the device acts as a debit/credit payment card.
[via intomobile]