Sprint’s LTE Smartphones to Get NFC Too

Wireless services provider Sprint is gearing up for the release of a whole lot of smartphones that will offer LTE connectivity capability, along with some other appealing features.

Apparently, the company is determined to pack NFC (Near Field Communications) in almost all of them, in an attempt to drive the adoption of this technology upwards. Smartphones that pack NFC are common these days, though not as much as some would like them to be, Sprint included.

Trevor Van Norman, Sprint's director of consumer product marketing, confirmed at CES in Las Vegas that the carrier planned on putting the technology inside the vast majority of its LTE smartphones. Low-end devices won’t taste the feature.

NFC would enable users to easily make payments with their mobile, to exchange files from a device to another through simply touching them, and do other actions as well.