Nokia 6212 Classic: Brings together Visa and Nokia for RFID enabled services

Filed in archive Near Field Communication on October 6, 2008

Nokia 6212 Classic, the NFC handset is already out in the market and now you won't just be using your mobile phone for making or receiving calls.

This phone from Nokia comes with the advantage of making remote and contact less payment. For this purpose Visa and Nokia have joined hands to make it a possibility. So from now on Visa card holders will be able to use their new Visa phone for paying for their purchases which means you would not have to carry your plastic card along every time you go out to shop.

Nokia 6212 Classic comes with an RFID module which functions as RFID tag and reader operating at 13.56 MHz frequency. Supporting read write and card emulation it also comes with peer to peer communication feature ensuring exchange of information between two NFC enabled phones. For example, using this feature two people having NFC phones could use it for exchanging their business cards in a paperless manner.

With this fourth generation NFC phone already out I feel that the day is not far off when people will chuck their plastic cards in favor of NFC phones which would also double up as their credit card.