These are the five key Forum roadmap innovation priorities:
1 Increased Power for NFC Wireless Charging. (from 1 watt to upto 3 watt of power)
2 Increased Range. (from 5mm to upto 30mm)
3 Multiple Purpose Tap. (improve the contactless user experience by supporting several actions with a single tap)
4 Modernizing Device-to-Device Communication. For instance enabling NFC-enabled smartphones to have Point-of-Sale functionality.
5 Expanding NFC’s Ability to Share Data Formats Needed for Sustainability.
Sweet! Isn’t number 4 already possible on iPhones? I assume that just means Apple built it their own way instead of using a standard (that I guess doesn’t exist yet?)
Can you use iPhones as Point of Sales devices?
I’ve seen plenty of those handheld devices that then attach to phones via Bluetooth for payments, but I haven’t seen people use iPhones to scan bank cards for payment.
Or did you mean 5? Because with iOS17, Apple is introducing a way to share your personal data as a ‘smart’ business card type thing using your phone. And it might be that what was discussed at the NFC forum was a form of that.
It looks like it was added in ios16 https://developer.apple.com/tap-to-pay/
I knew it was recent but I didn’t realize it was “current non-beta OS” recent haha
not sure about apple because they’re ultra locked, but on android it’s possible from android 8.1
https://www.mypos.com/en-gb/glass
it’s already possible on android phones, i’m using an app called “mypos glass” to get payments using my phone as a POS