Video: Nokia C7 and NFC demo from Qt Studios
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.
The video below from Qt studios (check out the slick QtQuick UI) shows Near Field Communication in action on the C7. Just tapping what could be a shop flyer brings up information. No manual scanning of bar codes necessary. This could be cool when shopping, bringing up prices, price comparisons, features list. Imagine if things at your grocery store had this, you could easily check the dietary stats of fats/sugars/salts etc and possibly compare it to other products to see which is the best option. That’s not demoed, but you could see the possibility of what you could do by being able to gather selective information very quickly, with just a tap.
I guess you could even share it, email/txt/mms details. This share function is actually already available as shown in the video, and you can post to social networks to ask them for advice/recommendations. Another cool feature – when shopping around, it could help you go back to the store and find exactly where that product was in the store. Right now the app demoes a store map to help you get around. Think 1-2 years from now with indoor positioning?
Check out at the end how they rated the experience on a 5 star chart simply by tapping on whatever star level. There’s so many other things to be done with NFC. Payments, secured location entries, start your car/laptop etc. What else would you like to be able to do?
Cheers Jim and Juha for the tip!
Nice and fluid QML user interface. Shows what’s possible on these devices even without dualcore 1GHz processors.
Sadly the company woke to QML a bit late. With QML it’s not about tech anymore. It’s about graphics and design. And that’s something Nokia just doesn’t seem to get. Over and over again they ask the same fools (probably Fjord) to design them the same lackluster icons, layouts and interactions.
They even can’t get rid of the default S60 font that looks awful no matter how perfect font engine you render it with. Look at the top bar in the Symbian UI refresh screenshot they showed in MWC Q&A. There it is. The same hideous S60 font that just won’t die.
When I worked at Nokia last year, a lot of employees complained in internal blogs about the font. But nobody ever found out who was responsible for preventing it from being kicked out. In the end, I guess they all gave up in frustration.
Well, somebody’s loss is someone else’s gain and I just hope that intel/hp keep faith in Qt for MeeGo and WebOS so that we can still get these good apps going.
Damn it why my windows Icons also look like the same all these years?
Yeah Icons are so important and there is no way to change them with themes noo!
Themes in Symbian are a cancer. Why? Because there is a million skinnable elements in the Symbian UI and most skins address only a fraction of those elements (or leave some half done). The result is an inconsistent mess. Even if the theme maker was the most dilligent person on earth he couldn’t skin everything because all the differentiating apps and 3rd party apps can’t even be skinned.
True, QML & QT could have gone far.
I’d say that Qt will go far.
wish this was how the symbian UI looked.. its gorgeous..
wow that Qt looks nice and sleek and sexy…….looks just as good as any iphone or android app if not better……Qt could of went really far
That looks fantastic, Android does not look that smooth with dual core 1GHz processors.
I hope Symbian’s PR3.0 Qt UI update will be as smooth and with nice animations and looks… I’d buy the N8 in an instant.
Great thing about this potential shown here in the UI etc is that I see NO reason I’ll want to downgrade to a Nokia Windows Phone any year soon. Sorry, did I say downgrade? My mistake. I meant ‘upgrade’. Sorry Nokia.
“You can go home and talk with your wife” XD
I wondered if instead of paying full royalty to MS to use Windows Phone OS, they could have just pay royalties to selected apps and services from WP and port them to Symbian and MeeGo. Like how MS Office supports MacOS. This way Nokia will keep their identity while cutting R&D cost plus adding value to their own ecosystem. A partnership like this will have the same effect to their current strategy, only difference is they still keep their soul. Hopefully someday MeeGo will bring it back.
If meego is as smooth as this is im def buying it. All i need to do is run that program that allows me to use android apps and im good. Meego FTW
QT is made native in Maemo/Meego, the QT GUI of Symbian just can’t beat that of Maemo/Meego!
this makes me sad!
I hope Intel gets off their collective ass and hires some more engineers to carry on the legacy.
The idea is there – but intel’s software development seems painfully slow compared to the work completed by the nokia engineers.
also, what was all that about the 8500 board you mentioned in passing before all this broke out?
Very cool, Nokia should advertise it like apple does.
damn is cool
very smoth
i think android need quad core 3,ghz processor to run that
looooovly UI
hope we see an amazing work that lead some other com to adopt symbian some how
Don’t let QT die.
That looks cool. Has anyone got a clue as if we´ll see NFC chips in WP7 phones from Nokia??
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wow somebody should send this article to engadget!