Sony has kicked off a new advertising campaign showing off the capabilities of NFC on its new Xperia smartphones. The first video (below) shows off the ability of an Xperia S phone to transfer music playing on the device to a Sony SRS-BTV5 Wireless speaker ‘sphere’ which plays music and can also act as a [...]
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Nokia Announce Lumia 920 And Lumia 820 Windows Phone 8 Handsets
Posted by Mark Debenham on September 5th, 2012
Nokia’s media event has arrived, and CEO Stephen Elop has been on stage to welcome people and then introduces Jo Harlow (Head of Smartphones) to unveil the Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 handsets, which look remarkably like the leaked images from late last week. IDC predicts that 2012 that images taken from a mobile phone [...]
Nokia Windows Phone 8 Lumia Handsets To Include Wireless Charging
Posted by Simon Drew on September 3rd, 2012
Its only a few days away from the Nokia September 5th event, and now the leaked Lumia 920 and 820 Windows 8 handsets from last week have been enhanced by a further leak that both devices will feature wireless charging capability. Supplied again by @evleaks a simple picture shows the Lumia 920 hovering over, and [...]
Posted in All, Windows Phone 
Tags: charging, contactless, lumia820, lumia920, microsoft, Nokia, wp8 
Contactless Payments Pass 1 Million Transactions Per Month
Posted by Admin on August 24th, 2012
"Tap and go" contactless payments have reached more than one million transactions a month across the UK, research has found. Barclaycard recorded the payments milestone in July, using figures from itself and Barclays, which has issued more than 90% of the contactless cards on the market. More than 80% of people can identify the contactless [...]
Marks & Spencer Adopts Contactless Payments
Posted by Andrew on August 13th, 2012
Marks & Spencer have adopted contactless payments in their 25 busiest stores in London according to The Guardian. The service, provided by payment processor Streamline and Visa Europe, lets customers buy items for with a simple touch that cost less than £20. Mark Austin, head of contactless at Visa Europe, said: We now have over [...]
Sony Xperia P Now Available Three.
Posted by Admin on July 16th, 2012
Three have announced that the Sony Xperia P is now available online at www.three.co.uk and from 17th July in all Three stores. The Xperia P is a aluminium-finished smartphone with a 4” reality display running at 540 x 960 pixels with WhiteMagic™ technology to improve results in bright sunlight, all driven by a a 1GHz [...]
O2 Announce Launch Of “O2 Wallet”
Posted by Rob Gordon on April 26th, 2012
O2 today announced the launch of O2 Wallet, a seamless and secure digital wallet service that will deliver the benefits of mobile money to more UK consumers than any other product or service currently available. Developed by a team of 250 experts from a variety of specialist fields including financial payments and e and m-commerce, [...]
Posted in All, iPhone / iPad Tags: Apple, contactless, debenhams, iphone, o2, o2wallet, payments 
