NFC on the new iPhone? 'Yep'
Yesterday we got a look at some new iPhone parts which some speculated to have an NFC reader chip on them. NFC has been a hot item of late on iPhone rumors especially with Apple's recent purchase of AuthenTec and the growing mobile wallet battle with Google.
We first found NFC code in hardware dumps from upcoming iPhone prototypes, so the likelihood of Apple including the hardware would seem high.
Further investigation into this hardware code dump leads us to believe that these iPhones also have Near Field Communication controllers directly connected to the Power Management Unit.
The implications are obviously monstrous. With the recently announced PassBook application(which we detailed prior to its announcement while speculating about an NFC tie-in), Apple will be set to compete with Google Wallet and Microsoft's similar service that unveiled last week. Apple could tie in with a payment processor like Citibank's PayPass system for credit card transactions—or it could become a payment processor of sorts with its hundreds of millions of credit cards already on file at iTunes.
NFC would also allow iPhone users a quick and easy way to share files from one iOS device to another.
In addition, Apple has a long list of patents showing where the NFC radio/receiver is located. Today, Jim Darlympe says Yep to Anandtech's new post on NFC
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