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NFC is here with Belle, MeeGo and Anna
jures33 | 07 September, 2011 11:48

Wow! What a time for Nokia and NFC!

Symbian Belle, 3 brand new smartphone models, all with NFC technology inside, Symbian Anna update available for C7 and N9 availability just around the corner! That's 5 devices all scheduled to be available on the market this quarter.

Really goes to show our commitment to NFC and working on the »chicken and egg«* problem so many in the industry are referring to as being one of the challenges stifling NFC takeoff in recent years.

As mentioned by one of our senior spokespersons we believe in a gradual approach with focus on enabling simple use cases connected to NFC tags, Easy device pairing and peer-2-peer interactions with support for the »card emulation« use cases (used to enable mobile payments and ticketing) introduced later on.

More on the NFC use cases later. If you have been playing with C7, C7 Oro or C7 Astound with Symbian Anna you will notice quite a few improvements in the NFC experience we introduced in Symbian Belle.

I personally like the move from a dedicated NFC Sharing application (where you needed to open a special app to share contacts and media) to instant sharing of contacts and photos. Also what we've done in the new models was improve antenna performance, we preloaded games and apps taking advantage of NFC as well as put NFC tags into the sales box to teach customers the new behaviour paradigm (tap) – what (in this person's opinion) NFC is all about.

Not to make existing C7 customers unhappy, we will make all of the SW level improvements available to them via the upcoming Symbian Belle upgrade (unfortunately one cannot upgrade antenna improvements :( ).

With this I would like to welcome you to this newly created blog on NFC technology where we will give you more information on what\s happening around NFC and Nokia and how best to leverage this technology as a developer. Your questions and opinions matter, so do raise them in the comments section and we'll try to address them in subsequent entries..

Also we started creating a section on the developer portal on NFC: http://developer.nokia.com/Develop/NFC . Be sure you bookmark it if you are interested in developing NFC enabled apps! We are going to update it regularly with news, docs, examples and most importantly tools to get you started with NFC development.

Next time we'll be talking use cases with NFC and also go into more techie side of things on how to develop apps with NFC. For now we leave you off with a nice introductory video from the Symbian Belle device launch featuring the core NFC use cases that come with it.

Enjoy!

* - The "chicken and egg" problem is referring to service providers hesitant to roll out NFC enabled services (smart posters, device pairing, payment & ticketing) due to lack of NFC capable mobile handsets on the market and on the other hand device manufacturers hesitant to add NFC into their devices due to lack of available NFC available services for customers.