Blimey, that Nokia 6212 classic phone has only just been announced and already someone has come up with a device that will work with its Near Field Communication features - the Parrot PARTY.
This Bluetooth speaker looks a bit like an old fashioned telephone handset (I can’t believe I just called a normal handset old-fashioned. Good grief) and should work with any Bluetooth Stereo compatible phone, PC or Mac.
Tap it against an NFC-capable device like the Nokia 6212 and it will pair up automatically and just start pumping out whatever ‘choons’ you believe will best entertain the other passengers on your bus.
The Parrot PARTY “Black Edition” retails at around £89.99 and should be available from the 31st of May.
Fresh from Nokia today is the Nokia 6212 classic, a 3G offering featuring integrated Near Field Communication (NFC). Basically NFC allows you to share content, access services and information as well as conduct payments and ticketing with a bare minimum of fuss.
A simple example of how this works on a practical level that Nokia gives is that you could tap your handset with someone else’s NFC capable handset in order to send a picture or a business card. The function can also be used to receive and send other larger types of content such as audio and video files.
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If you live in London you’ll have struggled to avoid the billboards for Barclaycard’s OnePulse cards that combine a credit card with the Oyster travel card.
The upshot is users can make sub-£10 purchases just by waving their card in front of a scanner, like they do with the Oyster. Well, now Barclaycard has said that from early next year, trials will begin of OnePulse using specially-equipped Nokia phones, so users wave their phone, not their credit card.
OnePulse can already be used in around 1,000 places in London, and for the trial several hundred Barclaycard customers will get Nokia phones embedded with the special radio chips - most probably the 6131 NFC (pictured) announced earlier this year.
Nokia reckons mobiles will be safer than contactless credit cards because they can be locked. Some have claimed that contactless cards will be open to fraudsters using portably radio receivers to get people’s card details.
Mind you, there is also another problem. Most people using their Oyster card will wipe it across the reader. If they did that with their phone it’ll soon get covered in scratches - imagine doing it with an iPhone! Hopefully Nokia’s thinking of ways round this!
[Via The Observer]
