First impressions of the NYC Nokia NFC Trial
By Stefan Constantinescu on Friday, January 19th, 2007 at 12:14 AM PST In Telecommunications
Reading this makes me happy in the pants, but at the same time a little upset it isn’t the defacto standard.
Some snippets:
Besides a few little bumps in getting the WAP push through to my phone to download the credit card information technology into the NFC chip in the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 6126 they gave me the process went pretty smoothly. It was simply a mater of putting my SIM card into the new phone, making sure my registration was correct, receiving a WAP push, downloading the application, transferring my contacts to the phone and I was good to go.
The NFC chip actually sits on the front end of the Nokia flip phone which appears, from how I have been using it so far, to be the logical ergo-dynamic placement. The phone has to be on in order for the chip to be read (which is weird when you consider that a key fab is not something thats needs to be on ALL the time). But this is probably because of long term Buying Based Over The Air Marketing schemes that such a technology makes possible.
I have to admit. I have had the phone for a week now and it is very
very very convenient. I have been using it on the 6 train NYC subway
system and at Duane Reade’s. I find my self wishing that more places
used it. I mean, it makes sense and is very convenient. My phone is
usually already out (or the easiest thing to grab) when I am paying for
small things.
I can’t stress how awesome this is, I suggest you check out the entire article from Mopocket
So my wife had a craving for curly fries this afternoon and called me to ask me to pick some up from Jack in the Box on my way home. I was really excited to see an NFC machine there. It,s the first I’ve seen and the woman at the cash register said it rarely gets used. I NFC is included in the new E61i. Also if I can just through in a spell checker, 5mp cam and make it a little narrower.