The New NFC-Enabled Nokia 6212 Classic
Always have your eye out for the latest in secret agent technology? With Nokia’s 6212 Classic handset, the secret hand-off made famous in the movies just got cooler. Need to give some data to people you frequently meet without carrying a stack of disks in your pocket? If you both have Near Field Communication enabled phones, all you have to do is tap them together and you can exchange preset information.
The third generation phone is slated for release in the third quarter of 2008 for the European and Asian markets. Besides the NFC, the Nokia 6212 Classic comes with a two megapixel camera, two inch display, stereo music capabilities with an FM receiver, and you can pop in a microSD for an extra four gig of space. But, if you’re like me, you’re probably more interested in what could be the electronic version of the “masculine chest bump.”
With an NFC phone, you can set up the specific information you want to transmit to others. For example, if you want to share your calendar with a client you just met, a simple tap of the phone will let them know when you are available. Want to go green on your business cards? Send it over electronically with a tap. With enough creativity, the personal applications for NFC are broad.
Speaking of creativity, this is where the business sector steps in with a platoon of hired geeks to make this technology really take off. It’s called NFC Tags. Think of walking into a coffee shop and tapping your phone on a small tag on the counter. That tag takes you to a website which allows you to read about the coffee you’re drinking, vote on the music played in the shop, order things from the shop to be sent to your house, or any other number of things. Even better, you can pay for your drink right there with your phone–just tap it on the counter, enter a password on the keypad, and you’ve just made a secure credit card transaction.
Here’s a different take on that situation. You buy concert tickets online, receive them on your phone, and present them by using your phone to touch an NFC tag. Airplane tickets? Could work the same! Now, if you could just stop people from calling you all the time, your phone would be free to buy that cup of coffee on your business trip to the Netherlands.
Still, what I think of when I think of NFC phones will always be two guys in dark sunglasses walking by each other at midnight. They walk by, touch phones, and keep going.
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