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Nokia C7: NFC-Single Wire Phones for the Masses ?
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.
Nice to show-off NFC for Management World in May
1 year ago
Just in time for this year’s TM Forum Management World in Nice is the news that travelers will be able to pay for low-value tickets on the city’s bus and tram network directly via their mobile phone bills. However, mobile operators say they are offering the payment service for consumer convenience, not to compete with banks.
Each of the country’s three operators plan to put at least 1,000 NFC phones on sale initially, but they expect to sell more. SIM cards the telcos issue will store bank payment and transit-ticketing applications. At least four French banks are expected to participate in the launch.
Bruno Prexl, spokesman for French mobile operator group Association Française du Sans Contact Mobile and m-payment marketing manager at Bouygues Telecom compared the NFC trial to the downloading of content, “In the past, it was ringtones and Java games. Now we are downloading low-value tickets. It makes sense to have one- (or two-) click payment through the phone. And today, the only one-click solution is the mobile operators’ bill.”
Consumers in the project will also be able to tap their phones to make retail purchases, using bank-debit applications stored on the SIMs. The Nice launch, expected to begin around April 2010, will involve a number of other applications. French operators and other organizers hope the project will serve as a prelude to a national rollout of NFC services in 2011.
Under a European Union mandate, the Payment Services Directive, which took effect in late 2009, mobile operators and other non-financial institutions can offer payment without a banking partner or banking license. However, this low value transactions also have low margins, a situation operators are not necessarily accustomed to.
For Veolia Transport, the transit operator participating in the Nice project, enabling customers pay for single tickets or other low-value transactions on their phone bills will save time but for higher-value transactions, such as passes, it would require them to go through their banks. That might require them to enter account numbers for the first purchase then short codes to renew the pass.
For visitors to Management World in May, unless they have accounts with one of the French service providers involved with the trial they may have to resort to that tried and tested method of payment on the trams & buses – cash!
Oberthur Technologies and NXP move ahead with NFC Deployment compatible with MIFARE™ infrastructures
2 years ago
Oberthur Technologies, one of the world’s leading Smart Card suppliers and NXP, the semiconductor company founded by Philips, announced today the completion of interoperability tests between Oberthur Technologies’ Opera FlyBuy NFC (Near Field Communication) SIM Cards and NXP’s PN544 NFC Controller. Opera FlyBuy NFC SIM Cards from Oberthur Technologies can be used in conjunction with NXP’s PN544 to design NFC mobile devices compatible with MIFARETM* Classic technology in existing infrastructures.
“With its multi-application and remote management capabilities, Opera FlyBuy NFC SIM cards from Oberthur Technologies offer the highest level of flexibility to mobile network operators (MNO) and convenience of contactless technology to the end-customers. With this MIFARE-compatible SIM card on the mobile phone, anyone travelling from Beijing to London will have the convenience of using transport services where MIFARE technology has been deployed,” said Xavier Drilhon, Managing Director, Card Systems Division at Oberthur Technologies.
“We are pleased to get this interoperability validation from NXP and support the industry in making mobile contactless a reality, and ensure our MNO customers take the lead in mobile convergence through our NFC solution.”
NXP’s MIFARE platforms are the most widely deployed contactless technology globally, in particular for public transport, event ticketing and access management. Today, about 75 percent of contactless cards used in transport networks are based on MIFARE technology.
“As the leader in contactless chip technology and co-inventor of NFC, NXP is pleased to work with Oberthur Technologies to enable deployment of mobile solutions compatible with MIFARE”, said Christophe Duverne, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Identification, NXP Semiconductors.
“MIFARE technology will significantly improve the NFC mobile experience allowing greater flexibility, mobility and convenience to consumers as well as enhancing business opportunities for mobile network operators”.
Oberthur Technologies has a proven track record in the NFC ecosystem notably with the launch of the FlyBuy Bichip in 2005 (First worldwide MIFARE compatible SimCentric solution), the launch of the FlyBuy DUO card (received SESAMES 2007), participation in the Payez Mobile project and in many other pilots worldwide.
* MIFARE is a registered trademark of NXP B.V. in the U.S. and other countries.
