Nokia C7 has secret NFC chip inside
RegHardware reports that the Nokia C7 has a secret Near Field Communication chip inside. Nokia has been known to randomly slip in easter eggs into their handset – e.g. FM radio receiver in the N800/Accelerometer in the N95.
Nokia will apparently announce soon what they plan to do with this ability. God knows, Nokia phones have always had great features years ahead of predecessors – but they’ve not really known how to take full advantage of it or tell joe public how awesome it is.
via REGHARDWARE
Thanks to ZonkOr for the tip to mynokiablog.com/tips.
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Nice. RFID is total crap for secure transactions (witness the plethora of issues with for example public transport cards, read up on the Dutch system for a real horror story that would be funny if it wasn’t for real people’s money paying for it), NFC is supposedly designed exactly for this purpose.
I hope it catches on, it would be nice, but it should be an open system (not saying it isn’t, I don’t know) so it works with other platforms too. Anyone want to say a bit more about it?
Nokia is one of the major players and sponsors for NFC. In Finland, about 10 years ago at my uni we could pay with Nokia mobile phone for drinks in a machine already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Field_Communication
So when are frozen apes going on tour then ?. But yea NFC chips are being tried out in many places already so this could really become everyday soon enough.
Does the N8 have one as well? Is it compatible with Bluetooth 3.0??
n8 doesn’t for some reason! C7 is the only s^3 device with it in, the e7 doesn’t have one either!
p.s. woooooooooooo first tip!!
Thank you very much for providing this information!
[...] will, as opposed to blatant marketing fail :p. Examples? N95 and accelerometer, N800 and FM Radio, C7 with a NFC Chip and for quite some time we didn’t really know that a quite a selection of Nokia’s [...]
[...] In October it was discovered that the C7 had a secret NFC chip inside. Secret as either Nokia purposely chose not to acknowledge it as a feature or just part of their abysmal marketing of the things they’re good at. [...]
We use NFC for the copiers at the university. SMS can be used for payment too, for those with no NFC chip in their phone. Can add that we have a lot of cell phone classes at out university and we collaborate with both Nokia and (Sony) Ericsson.
The SMS payment have been used for about 10 years now. The NFC option was available in January.