At the opening keynote of the 3rd annual WIMA conference, held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, Nokia announced its third fully integrated Near Field Communication (NFC) device, the Nokia 6216 classic. The new arrival is Nokia’s first SIM-based NFC device which enables operators to build NFC services on to the SIM card. With NFC consumers will benefit from greater ease of use, more convenient sharing of content – such as images, weblinks, audio files or contact data – as well as secure payment and ticketing transactions, all with just one tap of the device. The Nokia 6216 classic is expected to start shipping in the third quarter of 2009 in select markets with an estimated retail price of EUR 150 before taxes and subsidies.

According to Gerald, The most new and sophisticated thing about this device is the fact, that secure element is placed on the UICC (Universal Integrated Circuit Card, SIM Card) and using SWP (Single Wire Protocol) to communicate with the NFC Chip. This is the major difference to the older devices like the 6212, the 6131 as well as the 3220. Although there are already different prototypes from other manufacturers like Sagem’s my700x or phones from NEC and LG, Nokia is there first one to offer such a device commercially. In the presentation Jeremy Belostock, Head of New Technology Introduction, said that the device will be available in Q3/2009. Addtionally it was mentioned, that is this is the last dedicated NFC phone from Nokia – in the future MNOs will just have to tick in their specifications if they require NFC functionality in a mobile or not, as the NFC chip will be part of the upcoming Nokia platforms.

• Nokia S40, 5th Edition SDK
• Nokia 6212 NFC SDK
• Standard on SWP (Single Wire Protocol) by ETSI