Monday, June 9, 2008

Will the New iPhone be enabled for NFC?

The Apple developer's conference kicks off this morning in San Francisco & the word on the street is that Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, will be announcing that the new iPhone will have 3G support. If you are like me & rushed out to get the first release of the iPhone you are by now so frustrated with the speed of AT&T's Edge network that you rarely use your iPhone's Internet connection unless you are connected to a Wi-Fi network.

Of course the news of a 3G enabled iPhone will make me happy, what I'm most looking forward to finding out is whether or not the new iPhone will be enabled for Near Field Communications (NFC). Like so many others in the space of mobile transactions we all want to see more mobile phones hit the market with NFC capabilities. We all know how other companies follow suit when Apple does something so let's hope Jobs & his team engineered this iPhone release with NFC support. Combine the iPhone's SDK with NFC & we can make magic happen!

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