NFC capabilities Archives

Panasonic to launch a new flagship smart phone to embolden presence in European market

02/23/201202/23/2012 Jesse Collins

Panasonic is taking a bold step toward establishing its presence in the European market by announcing its new flagship mobile device for the region. Called Eluga, the smart phone features a great deal of fancy technology and built-in applications. It is also waterproof up to a depth of six-to-eight feet. The phone will have a powerful processor capable of handling most of its processes with ease. Panasonic believes that the phone will do well because of these features, but claims that consumers will come to love the phone because…

LevelUp partners with T-Mobile to boost mobile payments

01/31/201201/31/2012 L. Green

Though mobile payments are already starting to make their way into the in-person retail sphere, many do not yet have the smartphones required to implement the technology, so LevelUp and T-Mobile are working together to provide these devices for a monthly fee. The mainstream is beginning to take notice of the introduction of Google Wallet and other mobile payment services, and it’s becoming more common for people to understand that there are some retailers who will allow them to pay for their purchases by simply waving their mobile phone at…

Paperlinks QR code scanner now available on the Android Market

01/24/201201/24/2012 John Montgallo

Popular QR code generator and scanner, Paperlinks, which is known for its business friendliness, has just announced that it is now available on the Android Market. Android-based smartphone users can now download the app for free in order to be able to use a number of different kinds of QR code services. Paperlinks also provides businesses with Android NFC support. By using this new app, users of Android mobile devices will be able to rapidly and effectively create their own QR codes or scan those that have already been created.…

QR codes and NFC to be supported by Microsoft Tag

12/15/2011 L. Green

Microsoft has announced that its mobile barcode service, Microsoft Tag, will be supporting near field communication (NFC) and QR code technologies. The software giant is hoping that by adding these additional capabilities to its Tag mobile barcode service, it will be able to reduce or even eliminate the current confusion that consumers have regarding the different types of mobile barcodes that are currently available. According to the general manager of Microsoft Tag, Aaron Getz, Microsoft Tag is offering support for the two most common types of two dimensional mobile barcode…

iPhone 4S may not have NFC, but it has Bluetooth 4.0

10/11/2011 Julie Campbell

Many had expected that the latest version of the iPhone, the 4S, would be enabled with near field communication (NFC) technology, and while that was absent from the release, what was included was Bluetooth 4.0 integration which made it the first smartphone on the market with this enhancement. Bluetooth 4.0 is comparable to NFC in many ways, and was first integrated into the MacBook Air, allowing for communication among devices with a lower energy use than was required by previous versions of the technology. It allows the manufacturers of devices…