Symbian phones to support NFC in 2010
By Sarah Clark | NearFieldCommunicationsWorld.com | 6 November 2009, 11:19
The Symbian Foundation has confirmed it is building support for near field communication into Symbian 3, the second open version of the Symbian platform.
The foundation aims to have Symbian 3 functionally complete during the first quarter of 2010 and expects the first devices based on Symbian 3 to ship during the second half of 2010.
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