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Motorola Mobility will soon release its first commercial NFC phone, an upper-end Android LTE smartphone that U.S. mobile carrier Sprint plans to introduce.

Google announced two new NFC-enabled devices and enhancements to its Android Beam peer-to-peer feature during the opening keynote address today of its Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco.

New Orleans – Phone maker HTC is displaying three high-end NFC phones at the International CTIA Wireless show in New Orleans, including its Droid Incredible 4G LTE, destined for U.S.

Taiwan-based device maker Acer has announced its second NFC-enabled smartphone, the Liquid Glow, which will run Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich.

Phone maker ZTE has announced it will introduce a high-end Android phone supporting NFC at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Inside Secure today announced it has shipped 20 million NFC chips the past 12 months and said its chips will be used by a leading phone maker on a major mobile platform–as it seeks to build interest in its renewed IPO.

NFC chip supplier Inside Secure has released a new version of its NFC software stack, as it seeks to break rival NXP Semiconductors’ dominance of the market for NFC chips in Android phones.

Sony Ericsson has announced two NFC-enabled Android smartphones and NFC tags for its Xperia series, touting NFC as enabling consumers to share content, as well as “an increasing number of NFC applications.”

Google has unveiled its Galaxy Nexus, its much-anticipated follow-up to the Nexus S, which the Web giant is touting as supporting NFC-based content-sharing functionality called "Android Beam." The feature is part of the latest version of Google’s Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich.

Google NFC software engineers, while touting the “dozens” of NFC phones in the pipeline and prospects for compelling applications using tag reading and peer-to-peer communication, downplayed use of Android phones for payment with secure chips.