NICE, France – All handset makers planning to introduce Windows Phone 8 devices are expected to support NFC, said John Skovron, group program manager, Windows Phone engineering.
Skovron, speaking in a keynote Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Nice, France, predicted HTC would introduce NFC-enabled Windows Phone 8 devices Wednesday. That follows announcements earlier this month of Windows Phone 8 handsets supporting NFC by Nokia and Samsung Electronics. The first devices running Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, including Nokia’s Lumia 820 and 920, are expected on the market as early as next month.
“We’ve not required them to put NFC, but we’ve strongly encouraged all of our handset partners to do so. And I think they all did,” said Skovron. “Depending on whether there is a secure element or not enabled on that particular device, we will operate differently in the user experience and operating system.”
Thanks Dan, as always an article full of interesting information. I liked what Skovron said about P2P and tag reading. With a little help from Samsung, Sony and LG, people are interested in Tags now, and started playing with them. Paving the way for smartposters?
I hope Windows didn't invent some app like Beam, only for their own OS. It's time for cross-platform P2P capabilities.
“We’ve not required them to put NFC, but we’ve strongly encouraged all of our handset partners to do so. And I think they all did,”
Not a perfect start with HTC today. The “Windows Phone 8X and 8S by HTC” were announced, and I added both immediately to the very fast expanding list of nfc enabled phones. The flagship 8X is enabled, but then I discovered the 8S has NO nfc chip.
http://www.nfc-phones.org/summary-list-of-all-available-nfc-phones/