Andy Lees, president of Microsoft’s Windows Phone division, confirmed in an interview Wednesday that the mobile platform will support NFC and reportedly that it would support payments.
Lees, speaking at the AsiaD conference in Hong Kong, noted that handset makers using the Windows Phone platform could differentiate themselves with NFC, among other hardware and software features.
“There are different things you could do in hardware and software, so, far example, if one phone wanted to be NFC and the other one didn’t, you could do that, different cameras, etc., he said during an interview with All Things Digital, organizer of the conference.