14 DAY TRIAL // In an attempt to bring back the former glory of its products, Nokia is struggling to fill the technological gap with its rivals.
However, the partnership with Microsoft, which is meant to bring Nokia's phones among the most popular on the market once again, won't be enough.
It appears that Nokia continues to launch Symbian smartphones, even though they lost consumers' interest a long time ago.
In this regard, Nokia recently announced its first trio of Symbian Belle smartphones, the Nokia 700, 701 and 600.
All the above models are delivered with NFC (Near Field Communication) chips inside, which allows users to pair with other NFC-enabled devices and accessories by simply tapping them.
During the launch event in Hong Kong, Ilari Nurmi, a vice-president of Nokia said “From now on, all of our products will have an NFC chip inside. All other NFC-equipped devices can also link to our products.”
Nokia also made the first step towards the standardization of the NFC capabilities for all its future phones and accessories, and announced the Nokia Essence Bluetooth headset, which includes an NFC receiver and can be paired with any NFC-enabled phone.
It is also worth mentioning that Nokia does not intend to leave its upcoming Windows Phone devices behind and will integrate the same technology.
Mark Selby, Nokia, vice-president for multimedia, has already confirmed that all Windows Phones devices manufactured by Nokia will be delivered with NFC capabilities inside.
Even though the NFC technology already has an important market share in Asian countries, such as Japan and South Korea, it slowly gains its fans in United States, a place where Nokia has yet to be successful.
Nokia is trying to strengthen its presence in North America starting 2012, when the first lot of Windows Phone devices will be launched, as well as aggressively promoting the NFC capabilities of its phones.