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Apple testing RFID
Einar Rosenberg, who runs the Near Field Communications Group on Linkedin.com, has reported the following: Had to share this news. A highly reliable source has informed me that Apple has built some prototypes of the next gen iPhone with an RFID reader built in and they have seen it in action. So ...
Report: Apple testing RFID swipe support in iPhone prototypes
appleinsider.com — A site focused on Near Field Communications has reported that Apple has built new iPhone prototypes with... hardware support for sensing RFID chips. (more) Report: Apple testing RFID swipe support in iPhone ...
iPhone 4G can be equipped with RFID reader
phonestechnology.blogspot.com — According to Near Field Communications World, the company Apple is working on several prototypes communicator iPhone, one... feature of which is a built-in sensor radio frequency identification (RFID). The report of this came from some "very reliable source" in contact with Einar Rosenberg (Einar ... (more) iPhone 4G can be equipped with RFID reader
Apple Building iPhone Prototypes with RFID?
Apple Building iPhone Prototypes with RFID?
theiphoneblog.com — According to AppleInsider , Near Field Communications reports that Apple has built iPhone prototypes equipped with RFID... (Radio-Frequency IDentification). For those unfamiliar, RFID is either super-convenient, terrifyingly insecure, or both. ... (more) Apple Building iPhone Prototypes with RFID?
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Apple testing RFID-equipped iPhone, expert claims
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... We’re not saying we’re 100 percent on the source - Near Field Communications - but we’ll relate what we’ve learned. Einar Rosenberg, who runs the Near Field Communications Group on ...

Rumor: Next generation iPhone to be RFID enabled
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... Guess I’ll be touching my iPhone to my Mac to link them together to sync iTunes by next year. This is ballsy, and if it does happen … well then you’re looking at the start of something big. Apple was the one who pushed the rest of the handset makers to start making touch screen devices en masse, so if the 4th generation iPhone due to come out some time in 2010 comes with RFID then you can expect everyone else to follow. [Via: Near Field Communications World] ...

Rumor: Next iPhone to Gain Radio-Frequency Powers
Gadget Lab — ... “It’s not full NFC, but it’s a start for real service discovery, and I’m told that the reaction was very positive [and] that we can expect this in the next-gen iPhone,” the source told Near Field Communications. ...

Rumor: Next iPhone to Gain Radio-Frequency Powers
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... “It’s not full NFC, but it’s a start for real service discovery, and I’m told that the reaction was very positive [and] that we can expect this in the next-gen iPhone,” the source told Near Field Communications. ...

RFID coming to iPhones?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... prototype by Near Field. And, according to a Near Field Communications blog posting, Apple is said to have equipped prototypes of the next-generation iPhone with RFID readers. ...

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