NFC is coming!!! What a perfect venue too! Imagine all the opportunities for NFC enabled displays and posters the Olympics will generate. What is interesting to note is that the continued article also mentions that NFC capability will be soon be available as an ADD ON to non-enabled phones through an SD card!
Samsung and Visa to celebrate Olympics with London 2012 phone
By Stuart Miles
Samsung will launch an “iconic” Olympic phone in connection with Visa and the London 2012 games in the first quarter of 2012 Pocket-lint has learnt.
The confirmation comes from Sandra Alzetta, Head of innovation and new product development at Visa Europe, at the company’s first European security summit in Frankfurt.
Although details are sketchy, what we do know is that the phone will come with NFC capabilities, special Olympic content, be available worldwide rather than just the UK, and in the words of Alzetta be “iconic”.
Continues at: Samsung and Visa to celebrate Olympics with London 2012 phone – Pocket-lint.
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