Nokia to launch NFC-enabled smartphones in 2011

Bangalore: Nokia announced that the 2011 batch of its smartphones will be endowed with a new technology called Near Field Communication (NFC). A relatively new concept in the field of mobile technology, NFC which enables the exchange of data between devices over about 4 inches distance, will make transferring of data fast and easy.

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Like Bluetooth, NFC is also a short range communication technology, but it differs in the way that one need not manually configure to identify devices. In NFC, the connection between two devices is established at a rate of faster than a tenth of a second.

So the NFC enabled phones will be able to transmit data wherever NFC transmitters are placed. This will help you in locating things in a supermarket equipped with NFC transmitters or while travelling you can transfer data from counters containing NFC transmitters to get any kind of information about the place.

Anssi Vanjoki, Vice President for Nokia marketing said of the NFC technology, "The company was positioning itself on the emerging NFC technology market. Every smartphone developed by the company would use the Single Wire Protocol (SWP) part from certain other security features like MicroSD."