As of late, there has been a lot of talk about NFC technology making their way into our smartphones, but until some sort of standard has been established, it will be hard to encourage adoption by users. So much so that Japan’s top three carriers – NTT DoCoMo, KDDI au, and Softbank Mobile) have agreed to band together and support the global NFC standard.
For a country that has utilized NFC extensively over the past couple of years, it appears that their standard of NFC is based on Sony’s FeliCa RFID smart card technology, which is obviously different and not compatible with the Type A and Type B NFC standards used by the rest of the world.
Through this move, not only will this help encourage adoption of NFC technologies as manufacturers and end-users start to see it become a global standard, but it will help with the export of Japanese made smartphones from NEC, Sharp, Panasonic and Fujitsu, all of whom utilize Japan’s NFC standards and who have yet to really start selling their smartphones and tablets on a global scale. As an end-user, what do you guys think? Will a global NFC standard encourage you to use the technology?