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SIMply NFC-Revolution is an NFC-enabled SIM card

By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
SIMply NFC-Revolution is an NFC-enabled SIM card

Morpho and INSIDE Secure have team-up to launch a first product that has the potential to bring NFC functionality to the mass market, reaching even those users who don’t have the latest smartphones. The new “SIMply NFC-Revolution” product incorporates INSIDE’s core NFC chip technology with SIM technology from Morpho and the end result is an NFC-enabled SIM card!

According to the press release we got, this is a better bridge solution than flexible antennas or contactless stickers since no external change or retrofit of a mobile device is required. All it takes is to pull out your existing SIM card and replace it with the new one, which will work even in disruptive environments (i.e. under the mobile phone’s battery).

I like the idea and can only hope major carrier groups will jump on board and start offering SIMply NFC-Revolution to their customers, eventually bringing the promises of contactless payments and contactless ticketing to life…

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Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • Angus Pohl

    Morpho and Insided are not telling the whole truth – this product only works in some handsets where they can access additional power where the handset maker have not limited the power supply to the sim card according to industry standards. It further more can only do Card Emulation mode where it uses a combination of the reader’s power supply and the internal power supply from the non-standard handset.

  • Peter

    In the ideal world, this would be a great idea.

    Even in non-standard handset that do not limit the voltage ( which I doubt existed) , the RF performance over different battery, back cover as well as phone form factors would make performance rather un-predictable. Commercial deployment would be tricky and likely frustratiing to the end -user experience.