We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Badge, Credit Card, etc. : Nokia 6131 NFC
At this time of year, people who hear about NFC are more likely to be thinking football than wireless devices.
Resist that temptation for a moment. NFC stands for Near Field Communications. It’s technology that, within one device, could allow you to pay for things like parking meters, Diet Cokes from the vending machine, or overpriced lattes at the coffee bar. It could also serve as an electronic company ID badge or ticket to get you into a concert. If you’re worried about someone getting hold of your NFC device, you can require passwords for large transactions.
The concept is to build this technology into something we carry with us all the time anyway. Such as a cell phone.
Putting this in a cell phone (instead of the key tags or smart credit cards you’ve seen) provides for 2 way communication and lets you store information from other people. You can tap your NFC device on someone else’s NFC device and exchange electronic business cards, for instance.
So here’s a cell phone that has it. The Nokia 6131 NFC. It’s your basic Nokia 6131 with the NFC chip added to it. So along with Bluetooth and memory card capability and FM radio and music and 1.3 megapixel zoom camera functions, this ordinary looking cell phone could run your whole life. It’s rolling out at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas as we blog.
Nokia prices this device at about $340 US dollars, but that’s not including discounts that the wireless carrier will probably offer, in exchange for the usual long-term commitment. As for which carrier, it’ll probably be Cingular Wireless (a.k.a. AT&T).
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February 3rd, 2007 at 8:18 am
So much spam (
March 24th, 2007 at 2:59 am
Spammers suck a lot