With a near field communication enabled device, you will be able to download music from smart devices, interact with Bluetooth devices and even make contactless payments all with one device. Nokia is working on such technology for one of their phones. Imagine, with a near field communication enabled phone, you will be able to make contactless payments, download music from a smart poster, download pictures, exchange business card via phone and more. The only limit is the limit that the phone manufacturers build in to their near field communication enabled devices.
As near field communication technology advances, this will cause a more open technology and more use of the technology for storage and information trading. It could also eliminate the need for credit cards, and be able to read and initiate services that the user of the near field communication device wishes all securely, with only the use of a phone, and be able to have a record of all transactions that they can pull up and look at.
As radio frequency (RF) technology has advanced over the years as to its uses, this same technology is the technology of near field communication devices. For security reasons, I hope they limit the range of these devices as far as download and transfer of information. If they don’t, security of information could be a problem. With some type of security device in place and short range transfer, security for near field communication devices should not be a concern.
With the use of NFC Interface and Protocol (NFCIP-1), your phone could interact with numerous other devices. With this, you will be able to transfer information with phone-to-phone, or interact with any NFCIP-1 enabled device. If this becomes an open technology protocol, it only remains to see how many businesses and merchants will support this technology for anything from reading signs, to bus passes, or contactless payment. This would certainly make life much easier. Imagine only needing one device to conduct business or personal transactions without having to carry credit cars, bank cards, or having to use a pin for anything.
With one NFCIP-1 enabled device, there could be new business opportunities in urban life, personal health and wellness, and enterprise applications with the advancement of near field communication applications as companies add to the list of capabilities to a hand-held device using near field communication as its base. Some of this technology has been used, but to create a phone that has all of these capabilities will aid the business person; or the average person in their daily life and financial transactions they may consummate with a single device.
As more manufacturers and businesses make more near field communication tagged items available, and companies like Nokia develop and mass produce near field communication devices, one would hope that their cost should come down and become available to the average person who would then be able to afford one, unlike phones that now cost in the multiple hundreds for ones like the Blackberry.