Chinese phone maker ZTE will include chip NFC (Near Field Communications) into its smartphones and features, it said Wednesday at the Mobile World Congress.
The company said that some of its Android-based Smartphone will be equipped with NFC, and that its first NFC phones will be available in the second quarter. ZTE has signed an agreement with NXP Semiconductors to provide the necessary technology, he said.
Equipped with an NFC-enabled mobile phone, users will be able to make secure payments, mobile transactions and pay for public transport, according to ZTE. That is, of course, as long as someone is offering the NFC services.
There has been a growing interest in NFC lately, thanks in part to the fact that the software driver for NFC features were integrated in version 2.3 of Android.
Elsewhere at the Mobile World Congress, Samsung has announced that it will bring NFC on its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S II. The phone is also in a version without integrated NFC, which allow network operators to deploy SIM cards with built-in NFC, instead, if they wish. This is a model of network operator Orange is a proponent of.
This week has seen Deutsche Telekom announce plans to launch mobile wallet based on NFC. The roll-out will start this year in Germany and Poland and continue in 2012 in the USA, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, according to a statement.
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