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  • n.wang 14:21 on July 16, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    A “NFC France” in steps 

    2005, Philips, Orange and Samsung Joint with retailers LaSer and Vinci Park implement a six-month NFC technology pilot project at city of Cannes . It was the biggest attempting of NFC service worldwide by that time. The main purpose is to collect feedback from telecommunications providers, retailers and the consumers.

    2009, Nice has won government funding to become the ‘city of reference’ for a pre-commercial phase of NFC testing, which involving four French mobile operators — Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and NRJ Mobile. A total number of 4,000 NFC phones will on sale to subscribers in Nice initially. The phones will be the NFC version of touch-screen phone, the Samsung (S5230) Player One.

    2009, The French ministry of industry, has announced funding running into ’several million euros’ for 13 innovation projects in the NFC and RFID fields. The projects winning funding across many areas, from public transportation, logistics management, secure payment solution to access control managing, medical records tracking, RFID-based real time stock tracking system, etc.

    2010, After the successful launch of the NFC service in Nice. The French Minister for Industry and also Mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, has announced plans to provide funding to allow a further three to five French cities to adopt NFC services within the next twelve months.

    2010, Details of twelve more government-support NFC and RFID projects has announced by the French Ministry of Industry. €4.5 million of funding from the French government will spend on those projects.The successful projects include applications in the trade, tourism, health and homecare services, sustainable development and consumer services.

     

  • Derek Du 03:32 on July 7, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Nokia’ fight on hands, NFC Smart phones 

    NokiaAnssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s new executive vice president, has announced that it will incorporate NFC into all new smart phones next year. The world’s largest mobile phone maker just lowered its 2010 earnings outlook in June, and integrated its own smart phone sector and Ovi service, with a view to developing a competing smart phone against Apple and Blackberry.

    “we have a fight on our hands,” The new vice president Anssi Vanjoki wrote. “The first battle is to bring you products and services you will want to own and use, to inspire you to create and do new things in this ever-changing digital world. I’m ready to take this challenge on, and so is the entire Nokia team.”

    Maybe for Mr.Anssi Vanjoki, to incorporate NFC into smart phones would be his first battle. According to the statistics from market research firm IDC, Nokia sold 67.7 million smart phones by last year, almost double the number of RIM did (3450 million). Therefore, once a significant number of handsets have NFC then the technology will take off, and by the time Apple and others gets round to embedding NFC into their mobile device, Nokia will be a technology leader again.

    In China, Although the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information has not decided yet a national mobile payment standard between 2.4G and 13.56MHz, but with the tendency of the three major carriers have adopted the NFC standard, market prospects became clear. Now with the Nokia’ new smart phone policy, it can be said, NFC almost won the standards battle.

     

  • Tao Wang 16:32 on June 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , iPhone 4G, , NFC   

    RFID application on iPhone4G 

    Since 2005, iphone does not carry the RFID function itself, while some third-party developers tried to introduce RFID product which support iphone. Companies such as Visa jointly with mobile payment company DeviceFidelity developed a special iPhone case In2Pay, which enable iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users use the iPhone as a credit card without having to carry wallet. In2Pay iphone case fully compatible with all major payment networks and with financial institution adopted NFC (13.56MHz) and ISO 14443 specifications.

    But after launching iPhone 4G, there has been filed a patent by Apple for RFID antenna which will enable iPhone users to shop using the handset, products like In2Pay may become an unnecessary invention. Furthermore, iphone 4G with RFID functionality and accompanied by a variety of application may really change our social interaction.

    Like iTravel, a travel check-in application which possible launch in iphone 4G, not just allows users to search and book flight directly in the phone, but also can share user’s travel information to any phone contact. Apple’s iTravel is base on NFC to allow user simplify their check-in processes.

     

  • Derek Du 01:19 on June 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Battle of RF-SIM and NFC 

    RFID-SIM-NFCRecently, China Mobile formally Suspend RF-SIM mobile phone payment project (Mobile Wallet), the project will not be restart within two years for a conservative estimate. This result is a direct contest between China Mobile and China Unionpay, the only domestic credit card organization in China, which they support RF-SIM and NFC (Near Field Communication) separately.

    RF-SIM technology led by China Mobile use 2.4 G frequencies, which is not compatible with NFC (13.56MHz frequency) use by China Unionpay. Although China Mobile has the world’s largest mobile phone user group, but It’s too hard for China Mobile’s 2.4G standard to become primary frequency wireless communication technology in Chinese market as UnionPay’s 13.56MHz technology has being widely used by the financial POS, bus, subway, gas stations and more other fields. If China Mobile continues to push 2.4G standard, it means that not only RF-SIM card need to purchase one by one, but also full replacement of POS machines across China. The costs will reach hundreds of millions dollars.

    According to the statistics of Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information, China’s mobile phone users reached 780 million in the first quarter. If 40% of Chinese mobile phone users choose the mobile payment service like in Japan and South Korea, China will have more than 300 million users to pay by mobile. Different wireless communication frequency standards will lead to redundant investment and other issues in such huge market. To solve this, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Technology is to promote a mobile payment standard system. Although the result is unsettled, but the industry view was expressed that, with the suspension of China Mobile’s RF-SIM project, 13.56MHz NFC technology is likely to be the final winner.

    It is uncertain that who will become leader in the field of mobile payments in China, but one thing is certain, that no one can dominate the market, only to cooperate together for a bigger cake.

     

    • Elin 11:30 on June 29, 2010 Permalink

      Oh, so China Mobile has officially stated that they will not commercialize their mobile payment service based on RFID?

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