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Analyst Claims No NFC in Next-Generation iPhone
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That is the issue. The infrastructure is not there yet. IMO, the first roll-out of RFID / NFC has been a disaster with the control freaks running the train right off the rails. Also, like early bar-codes, there are conflicting standards. In the 90s a few companies (like Symbol) came out with a multi-format bar code scanner that took of like a rocket. Many have been trying to do that for RFID / NFC but so far, the problem is more than a decoding a two-dimensional image.
My take is that Apple's Mt. Olympus just finished up an extensive survey of the RFID / NFC world and is not making a move in the next generation phone. From this, there will be scores of yahoo's going first, on other platforms (Andriod / WM7 / Blackberry) that will try to one up the iPhone with an OEM RFID / NFC reader. Apple will watch these pioneers die of dysentery and then make a move brushing away these frontier corpses was was done to Palm and WinCE.
Call me paranoid but I can just imagine hackers pick pocketing you and getting Visa Payments from you just by walking by you in the Mall with this technology.
They already steal credit card info via RFID devices...won't take long for this to be compromised if it hasn't already been. I would never want this is a phone or device (or RFID in a CC) I own...nevahr!
Thanks for the 411, I didn't realize that we shouldn't shop at Walmart or other "crappy" stores (I don't any ways, more for political/business reasons). You have saved me from much pain and trauma.
I do LOVE waving my iPhone to pay for my "elitist" "Grande triple non-fat latté" (notice the é, gotta keep the elitist vibe real).
What are the "safe" places for me to shop? Quelle nightmare if an Android user posts a YouTube clip of me somewhere us Mac users would NEVER dare to venture.
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I suggest you spend a little more time on different Mac Forums!! MacDailyNews is the best, it's where I learned how important that I am and that anyone who shops at Walmart (or uses an Android device) is a Low Life!!! This all came up when Apple started selling our elegant, delicious, magical, and ohhh so sexy iPhone in Walmart, (right next to the crappy, junky, and clunky, Android Phones)....
Now that you're learning to be a Mac User too, let me ask you, DO you have something picked out for Steve for his Christmas present, it's never too early to start looking!!!),...
There's also this possibility, though it might be a "kludgey" solution: an Apple-built adapter that connects to the bottom of the iPhone 4S using the 30-pin iPod connector port that is an NFC transceiver fully compatible with the Sony FeliCa NFC system. This right there makes it very viable in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong, where FeliCa-based NFC payment transactions are commonly used.
The fact is the USA is years behind in cell phone technology compared to Asia and Europe.
If you're talking "feature" cellphones, that is correct. But when it comes to a "smart" cellphone like the iPhone or Android-based models, the US is pretty much caught up, especially since the rapid rise with sales of cellphones using Android 2.0 and later.
Currently, there are very few "smart" cellphones that incorporate NFC internally; the only one I know of the Google Nexus S, co-developed with Samsung. If Apple does include NFC with the iPhone 4S (and makes it compatible with the Sony/DoCoMo-developed Mobile FeliCa system), the iPhone 4S would become the #1 selling phone in Eastern Asia almost overnight, since you can now dispense with "feature" cellphones that use Mobile FeliCa.