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Rumor hints that the upcoming Apple iphone 5 will not support mobile payments through NFC (Near Field Communication Technology), even though this service is very popular and also added to the Android operating system recently. The British media said that Apple has revealed the next generation iPhone will not support Near Field Communication Technology according to a local mobile operator.

Here is the source from The Independent:

Sources at several of the largest mobile operators in the UK revealed Apple had disclosed in meetings that it would not be including Near Field Communication (NFC) technology – which enables payment for products with a wave of your phone on a reader – in the latest version of the iPhone, be it the iPhone 4GS or the iPhone 5.

One source close to the discussions said: “The new iPhone will not have NFC, Apple told the operators it was concerned by the lack of a clear standard across the industry.” Yet Apple is understood to be working on its own NFC proposition, which would link payments through iTunes. It hopes to introduce the technology in a handset likely to be released next year.

As we know, the recent released Apple iPad 2 also doesn’t support the Near Field Communication Technology. Apple insiders said that the next generation iPhone won’t support NFC too, because Apple told the operators that there is no any specific standard in this industry.

However, someone guess that Apple is developing NFC payment platform based on iTunes. The platform will compete with some services in mobile operators’ planning. And these operators will cooperate with banks to deploy some necessary hardware in retailers and tourist attractions.

The analyst Carolina Milanesi from Gartner said that NFC has been discussed for several years by Nokia but still no any results. Now Google and Apple started to discuss it, NFC will come soon. However, in early of this year all mainstream mobile operators promised that they would launch the NFC commercial service. And now GSM Association is developing the essential verification and testing standards to make sure the intercommunity of NFC in global.

The annual WWDC conference is an exciting time for most Apple fans, because in WWDC Apple will release a new version of the iPhone (this year should be the iphone 5) and the latest iOS version. Recently foreign media said WWDC 2011 will be held between June 5 and 9.

WWDC 2011

Somebody say WWDC is the of short Apple developer conference, foreign websites SetteB IT reported WWDC 2011 will be held between June 5 and 9. From the view of the schedule on June 5 to 9 days although it is marked as “meeting”, but is likely to imply WWDC General Assembly, and then some of the time is not suitable. Currently Apple has not yet officially set a date, but last year’s iphone 4 released was in June 7 to 11 in the same place, now this news is still very high accuracy.

Also with the Verizon of iPhone’s official release, in this year’s WWDC, we are likely to see two versions of the iPhone 5, but the only regret is that Jobs will miss this conference because of sick.

Generally speaking, Apple always release the new generation iPhone in June of every year. However, this year will be an exception. Because Apple may release iphone 5 in this summer as early. According to Tech Web Digitimes, Apple added some parts suppliers for iPhone 5, including Foxconn, Foxlink, Gold Circuit Electronics and LED manufacturer Epistar. Digitimes also said that Apple plans to release iPhone 5 in this summer at earliest.

Dual Core CPU:

It is reported that iPhone 5 will be equipped with Apple’s latest A5 processor based on the ARM Cortex A9 architecture. The current A4 processor of iphone 4 is PowerVR SGX535, while iPhone 5’s will be dual core SGX543. Then the processing power will be doubled, and it will support smoothly playback HD 1080P video.

The new version of Apple’s iOS 4.3 beta 2 will be added an secret feature, which is Media Stream. The Media Stream includes two main features, such as Photo Streams and Find My Friends. The Photo Stream supports sharing and subscribing photos and the Find My Friends is similar to Foursquare social location service.

It might become the Digital Wallet:

A rumor has ever said before that Apple will use NFC on iPhone 5, and makes it become another type debit card or credit card. Last August, Apple employed NFC expert Benjamin Vigier to be their mobile business manager. Vigier has rich experiences on NFC field, because he had ever done such projects in Starbucks and Paypal. Apple also has such related patents in this field, therefore iPhone 5 might be one of the smart phone that equipped with Digital Wallet. In addition, iPhone 5 will be possibly having a significant improvement on video and picture capturing, flash supporting and external antenna designing.

Main Feature Forecasts of iPhone 5:

cell phone

Compass

Map

E-mail, Text and Social Network

Surfing the Internet

Game Console

Digital Wallet

Various Apps Running

Light Weight Mac

Camera and Video Photographing

Portable Calculate

Pedometer

Auto Key

Boarding Check

3D Games

Supporting three Operators Sprint