Sony has announced two Xperia NFC smartphones, the Xperia Ion which is exclusive to AT&T in the US and the Xperia S which will be available worldwide this quarter, as well as read-only NFC Xperia SmartTags. More
Prada and LG have unveiled a third iteration of their jointly created designer phone... More
Acer’s Liquid Express, the company’s first NFC-equipped device, is now available in the UK from Orange and T-Mobile... More
LG’s latest designer handset comes with NFC and has just passed through FCC approval in the US... More
The company’s new Liquid Express NFC smartphone supports both tag reading and mobile payments — and, the company says, NFC will now be included in all its future Android phones. More
Acer is set to enter the NFC handset market in France with an entry-level device called the E320 Liquid Express — and could be about to NFC-equip all its future Android smartphones. More
The RW-T107 Android 2.3 tablet includes an NFC interface that allows it to be used in stores and other commercial locations to read loyalty, membership, ID and other contactless cards. More
The phone maker has unveiled two new Optimus series phones, the Optimus Net and the Optimus Pro. The Optimus Net will come with an NFC version in Europe. More
The new NFC phone, Huawei’s first, is believed to be a sub-US$200 device running Android 2.3 Gingerbread. More
“I’d love to see peer-to-peer used for payment,” Google’s Nick Pelly told a packed audience at the I/O conference’s ‘How to NFC’ session, as he responded to questions regarding the future of mobile payments on Android devices. More
Google’s Nick Pelly told delegates at Google I/O today that “dozens of NFC phones are in the pipeline” for later this year... More
A 4G version of the Nexus S has been launched by Google today... More
The Android Developers Guide now has a new section dedicated to near field communication technology... More
Advertising is the key to the internet giant’s NFC strategy and Eric Schmidt provided delegates at the Mobile World Congress last week with clear examples of how the company expects to be able to take advantage of the technology. More
The decision on whether or not the devices shipped into a particular country will be equipped with NFC will depend on “market requirement”, says Samsung. More
Mobile and NFC experts Dr Gerald Madlmayr and Christian Kantner have taken apart both a Nokia C7 and a Google Nexus S to find out what’s inside and what kind of services it will be possible to offer via the handsets in the future — and to build a Nexus S that can operate in full card emulation mode. Here Dr Madlmayr explains what he and Kantner discovered… More
NFC and contactless chip specialist Inside Secure has begun the task of trying to convince the industry that NXP is not the only game in town when it comes to adding NFC functionality to Android mobile phones with the launch of version 4.2 of its open source NFC protocol stack. More
Google has released Android 2.3.3, an update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread specifically designed to add more NFC functionality to the operating system... More
A team from Stanford’s MobiSocial lab has developed two applications for the Google Nexus S that use NFC’s peer-to-peer capabilty: A phone-to-phone file transfer service and a collaborative whiteboard. More
Osama Bedier, PayPal’s vice president of product development and a key player in the company’s move towards mobile payments, has joined Google... More