Sunday, January 2, 2011

2011: the NFC year for Mobiles ?

Now that 2010 is over. So what is next in Mobile for 2011 ?

NFC ?

Here is a list of what COULD happen in 2011:
25-29 January 2011: Apple to announce iPhone 5 with NFC ? : No !
http://www.macworldexpo.com/
14-17 February 2011: NFC adoption for Android mobile phones (Samsung, ...) to be announced at MWC (*)
http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/
14-17 February: BlackBerry announce NFC support ?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/16/jim-balsillie-says-blackberry-playbook-has-a-module-cavity-hi/
14-17 February: Nokia announce NFC support ?
http://mobile.engadget.com/2010/10/21/nokia-c7-has-nfc-capability-wont-say-what-its-for-yet/
19-21 Apr: Updates on NFC deployments at WIMA
http://www.wima.mc
10-11 May: Google announce NFC adoption at Google I/O
http://www.google.com/events/io/2010/
June: Apple to announce iPhone 5 with NFC at WWDC ?
http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/
October: PayPal announce NFC support at PayPal X Innovate 2011 ?
http://www.paypal-xinnovate.com/
15-17 December: Volume announcements of NFC Cards & NFC Mobiles at Cartes 2011 ?
http://www.cartes.com/

(*)
Cf. What did happen in 2010:
Aug. 2010: http://emoney.allthingsd.com/20101213/google-acquires-zetawire-for-mobile-payments-tech/
15 Nov. 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCUH8STTfyU
5 Dec. 2010: http://www.nxp.com/news/content/file_1796.html

Update:
TechCrunch put NFC in it's "Seven Technologies That Will Rock 2011"
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/02/seven-technologies-that-will-rock-2011/

Happy New Year from the MobiNear Team for 2011 !

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