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First impressions of the NYC Nokia NFC Trial

Categories: Telecommunications
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, January 19th, 2007 at 12:14 AM

Nfctrial

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 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

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Jeb

    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.