Deutsche Telekom Expecting NFC-Enabled iPhone This Year
With rumors suggesting that Apple may add near field communication (NFC) capabilities to the fifth-generation iPhone to enable mobile payments, observers have been looking for additional signs of the such an addition.
According to Phone Scoop, Deutsche Telekom today gave a presentation at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona outlining its adoption of NFC technology for mobile payments, and during the course of the presentation noted that it expects an NFC-enabled device from Apple to debut sometime this year.
Deutsche Telekom announced that it expects NFC phones in 2011 from Apple, Samsung in Q2, and RIM & LG in Q3. The company expects mobile payments replacing cash to be the most popular use for NFC technology, followed by mobile ticketing for services such as public transportation.
Engadget clarified with the report's author that the mention of Apple was included on a slide in the presentation, although Apple was not included in a press release from Deutsche Telekom describing its mobile payments initiative among other topics associated with Mobile World Congress.It is of course unknown whether Deutsche Telekom representatives were simply speculating based on the existing NFC-enabled iPhone rumors, or if they have additional information that may have been gleaned from testing with the new device.
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17 months ago
I think paying for small purchases through the phone would be tremendously useful. I hope all of these rumours are true.
17 months ago
World Series winning Giants! Funnest team to watch in a long time. I'll buy a few tickets with this, if there is no contract required. Otherwise, on-line.
17 months ago
yup.. not surprising. NFC is going to be on all the platforms anyways. That's the great thing about open source.. available for anyone to implement.
The fun part will be when someone steals your phone, unlocks it easily and starts using your CCs via NFC on your phone. Better yet, hackers break down the code and can steal your payment info remotely, or intercept it while your phone is making the transaction. I called it.
The fun part will be when someone steals your phone, unlocks it easily and starts using your CCs via NFC on your phone. Better yet, hackers break down the code and can steal your payment info remotely, or intercept it while your phone is making the transaction. I called it.
17 months ago
for a mere 30% you can use your iPhone to buy stuff...
Guessing you are talking about Apple's cut of content. This has nothing to do with Apple, all they do is put the chip in the phone, they don't getting a cut from the bank.
17 months ago
Better yet, hackers break down the code and can steal your payment info remotely, or intercept it while your phone is making the transaction. I called it.
I'm wondering this too. How easy will it be to steal CC info from these devices?
17 months ago
I still have my reservations about all of this. NFC may be a perfectly sound technology itself, but I'm more concerned about the "big picture" of cash going away. Cash is pretty much the last possible way to pay for something in an anonymous/untraceable manner. Government and law enforcement, obviously, would LOVE to see cash disappear, but surely, so would marketing types who'd like to be able to compile completely accurate statistics on exactly where you spend your money.
As we create convenient new "cash replacements", are we really making an equal effort to ensure they have all of the same anonymous properties of a cash transaction?
I think it's a pretty basic concept that an individual might want to (and SHOULD be able to) pay for a good or service without it leaving behind a trail recording the date, time and details of that transaction. After all, this happens naturally any time you barter for something.
As we create convenient new "cash replacements", are we really making an equal effort to ensure they have all of the same anonymous properties of a cash transaction?
I think it's a pretty basic concept that an individual might want to (and SHOULD be able to) pay for a good or service without it leaving behind a trail recording the date, time and details of that transaction. After all, this happens naturally any time you barter for something.
17 months ago
Personally don't see the need for this in the UK? Everything that this could pay for i assume must be under £10 like the Barclays implementation of this... whereas most places such as Sainsbury's, Tesco, Asda, Starbucks, Costa Coffee etc etc accepts credit cards and debit cards anyway... this NFC won't save them any money and will more than likely cost more to setup and maintain?
17 months ago
my opinon on using NFC-enabled phones for mobile payments.
What's the point... whether you get out your credit card or your phone it still requires about the same amount of "effort." It's not like a credit card takes up a whole lot of room in your wallet. Maybe it will be "safer" because it's easier to lose a card than your phone... but I dunno. Plus we will still need to use credit cards anyways because a) it will take years before NFC is well established and b) I'm not about to hand my iPhone to the 16 year old waiter at Denny's (or where ever. I'm not picking on Denny's)
What's the point... whether you get out your credit card or your phone it still requires about the same amount of "effort." It's not like a credit card takes up a whole lot of room in your wallet. Maybe it will be "safer" because it's easier to lose a card than your phone... but I dunno. Plus we will still need to use credit cards anyways because a) it will take years before NFC is well established and b) I'm not about to hand my iPhone to the 16 year old waiter at Denny's (or where ever. I'm not picking on Denny's)
17 months ago
It's a no-brainer. Besides payments (which would be really easy through iTunes billing), there's plenty of uses for NFC, such as person-to-person info transfer.
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