Nokia Lumia 820 hands-on video, app to read and write NFC tags spotted

Nokia is returning strong and once again proven to have a lot of features and innovations in order to sell its two new Lumia smartphones, both in design and form factor stylish, original and very pleasant.

After several hands-on video dedicated to the most powerful Lumia 920 here's one, made ​​by French site test-mobile.fr , featuring the Nokia Lumia 820 . The device is shown in all its beauty, with a description of all the main features and a quick overview of some features of Windows Phone 8.

Nokia DT-910 - Nokia Wireless Charging Stand

The innovations introduced by the new range of Nokia Lumia smartphones with Windows Phone 8 is not only limited on its smartphones, but extend on the range of accessories which accompanied the launch on the new Lumia lineup.

There is no shortage of accessories to enhance the features of the Lumia 920 and 820, such as those that allow you to make the wireless charging device. 

To perform the important operation that allows, in fact, to break free from the annoying cables, recourse may be had, inter alia, to a special stand, the Nokia DT-910 . Will be sufficient to put the smartphone on the stand to start automatically reload the terminal. The stand was already announced a few days, but a further feature of the accessory has not been highlighted so far is the presence of the NFC connectivity.

Nokia announces Lumia 610 NFC , the first Windows phone with Near Field Communications

We have seen this phone appeared in WPBench charts in March. Via a video posted on youtube, and then make it private, Nokia has just "officially" announced the Lumia 610 NFC, the first Windows phone with support for Near Field Communications.

While waiting for the company's new smartphone ads actually remains to be seen whether they will be presented with two versions of Lumia 610 or if the smartphone seen in Barcelona, ​​via a firmware update, will support the Near Field Communications.





Via WMPU

Windows Phone 7.5 Already Supports NFC

In an interview with TechRadar, Will Coleman, developer evangelist and product manager at Microsoft UK believes that the current build of Windows Phone 7.5 does, in fact, support Near Field Communications (NFC) technology. The thing is that manufacturers have yet to take advantage of the feature. According to Coleman:

“As far as I’m aware, NFC is supported by [Windows Phone], but needs to be enabled by the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer). So, if any OEM wants to enable it, that can be done by all means.”

Coleman also believes that we will soon see some exciting things happening around NFC technology:

“Think it’s about just about timing, in the not too distant future there are some exciting things that will be coming through with NFC from Microsoft.”

Nokia’s head of apps partnerships also chimed in on the future of NFC in their own devices:

“NFC isn’t an if, it’s a when, it will happen. Obviously there’s no NFC on our launch devices, so it’s difficult to comment too much on that, but the main divisions between secure and non-secure [NFC] mean there’s bags of opportunity for the technology [on our phones] especially with so many operators launching services.

“We need to get a [Windows Phone] device into the marketplace with NFC capabilities, and when we do we can really start to showcase our services.”

With Android iterating over and over again at the speed of light, it will become increasingly important for WIndows Phone to stay at feature parity with other platforms. NFC is considered by many to be the future of mobile computing, so it’s good to hear that it’s supported in Windows Phone 7.5, but we need the OEMs to begin to take advantage of that capability.

Source:Windows Phone Metro ; TechRadar