A lot of interest in the last WIMA in Monaco about C7 the new phone with WIFI Capability, good camera with embedded NFC. Mike Selby interview on the topic is here.

But will Nokia C7 will replace the SMASUNG phone SAMSUNG GT-S5230N ?

According to Dr. Gerald Madlmayr’s BLOG (Full article here) the Nokia C7 comes with a PN544 from NXP. The device  is  ready for  Single Wire Protocol support in order to use the UICC as the secure element.

In order to enable this functionality, Nokia only needs to provide a firmware that comes with the according software stack. In this case, Nokia will use NXP’s FRI (Forum Reference Implementation), which is also used in the Google phone. Nokia has to provide the JSR257 (Java layer) in order to manage the reading/writing functionality of  tags as well as the peer-2-peer mode. Depending on the configuration of the FRI, the phone can support SWP (= card emulation using a UICC). The C7 already provides JSR177 for J2ME applications to communicate with the UICC. So hopefully we will see a Nokia firmware update on the device soon.