We had reported few months back that Samsung has teamed up with Visa to launch a special NFC based device for the London Olympic 2012. Today the device has confirmed by Sandra Alzetta, Head of innovation and new product development at Visa Europe, at the company’s first European security summit in Frankfurt.
Celebrating the London 2012 Olympics, Samsung with Visa will be launching a special phone that would feature Olympic 2012 content. This iconic phone will be launched in the first quarter of 2012.
Details of the upcoming device are not available at this time, however, the phone will feature NFC and will be available globally. Visa is keen on users using the NFC feature in their smartphones to make the event contactless and hence is working to bring NFC based microSD cards as well. The new NFC ready phones or memory cards can be used at almost 160,000 terminals in Europe, including the 70,000 shops, bars, and restaurants in the UK, says Visa.
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