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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/new-capabilities-for-mobile-phones.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Many BlackBerry phones will have the new NFC technology next year, said a spokesman" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-new-capabilities-for-mobile-phones.jpg" alt="Many BlackBerry phones will have the new NFC technology next year, said a spokesman"/></a></p>
<p>Mobile phones are usually used to communicate with people far away but soon they could get the ability to do the opposite: communicate with things that are close enough to touch.</p>
<p>Phones will get some extra capabilities with the addition of chips for so-called near field communications (NFC), a wireless technology with a range intentionally limited to just a few inches.</p>
<p>The phones will be able to talk to payment terminals designed for &#8220;smart cards&#8221;, replacing credit and debit cards. They could also be used as public transport passes or two phones could be tapped together to exchange contact information.</p>
<p>Nick Holland, analyst for research firm Yankee Group, said adding NFC is like adding a whole new capability on the level of GPS navigation or a camera.</p>
<p>The industry has been talking about including NFC in phones for years, mainly to turn them into &#8220;electronic wallets&#8221;. Beyond a few trials, nothing much has happened, except in Japan and Hong Kong, where these systems have caught on for mass-transit ticketing.</p>
<p>But at the world&#8217;s largest mobile phone trade show, held last week in Barcelona, it was clear that the log-jam has loosened, in part because NFC chips are now cheaper. Millions of NFC-equipped phones will be in consumer hands in Europe and the US before the end of the year.</p>
<p>Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, said at the show that &#8220;many if not most&#8221; BlackBerrys will have NFC chips this year. Google&#8217;s Nexus S already has one and the company&#8217;s latest Android software for that and other phones has NFC support. Nokia, the world&#8217;s largest maker of phones, has committed to putting NFC chips in all its next-generation smart phones.</p>
<p>Based on job postings at Apple, there is speculation the new iPhone model due this summer will have an NFC chip.</p>
<p>It is possible to upgrade some current phones with NFC chips. Small memory cards that are accepted by some phones can be given NFC capabilities. Both MasterCard and Visa are experimenting with &#8220;jackets&#8221; for the iPhone that have NFC chips, for instance.</p>
<p>But not all phones are compatible with these solutions, so the most likely way to get NFC into consumer&#8217;s hands is with new phones. Yankee Group estimates that there will be 151 million NFC-enabled phones in 2014, up from 834,000 in 2010.</p>
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