The cult of Mac is reporting a rumor that Apple will be including a NFC (Near Field Communication) chip in version 5 of the Iphone. Apparently Apple has hired a number of NFC experts and has filed a number of patents.
There have been a lot of rumors about the Iphone of which a small minority have turned about to be true. However we know that Nokia has committed to this technology for all of its smartphones from 2011.
So we now have two key players who seem to be interested in NFC who own around 40% of the market for smartphones. RIM has also experimented with NFC and had a pilot project with Paypass last year.
I’m still waiting to see a killer application for NFC enabled smart phones until I see it I’m going to assume that all talk about NFC enables smartphones is vaporware.
