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Nokia 6131 NFC

Finally: the Nokia 6131 NFC mobile phone has arrived from Finland! I have been waiting for this model ever since we developed an application on the first generation of the Nokia NFC mobile phones.
The first generation of NFC phones by Nokia existed of two models: the 3220 and 5140i. We succesfully deployed a Java ME NFC application on these models, but this was far from trivial.
We knew that most of our problems would be solved by the second generation of NFC phones by Nokia, but nobody knew what this model would be exactly capable of.
Just to give you an idea of the challenges we had to cope with using the first generation of NFC phones:
1. Java applications had to be smaller than 125kB.
2. The NFC client library was not pre-installed and had to be included in your Java application, so the available space for the actual application was even smaller than 125kB!!
3. The NFC client library was a Nokia proprietary API, which is very inconvenient for a number of reasons:
- Your application wouldn’t be compatible with any other NFC phones by other manufacturers (for example Samsung’s NFC phone).
- Nokia didn’t make the SDK available freely, developers had to buy a license for the SDK.
4. The capabilities of the phones were very limited and outdated. For example: no bluetooth, limited Java ME API’s and a very small screen.

Luckily Nokia has improved itself with the second generation of NFC phones! The new phone is based on the Nokia 6131 clamshell device.

This model is a very up-to-date phone based on the latest Series40 generation of Nokia. Therefore this model includes for example bluetooth, Java ME API’s for webservices and integration with the phone PIM. And almost last but not least: the Java ME applications can now be as big as 1 MB!!
But the real improvement is in the NFC API. The new phone includes support for the standardized API: JSR-257. This API was developed by the JCP and can be used for contactless communication (for example: barcodes and off-course NFC).

LINKS:
nokia 6131 NFC page: http://forum.nokia.com/devices/6131_NFC
NFC blog: http://www.nfc-development.org/
JSR-257: http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=257
luminis® mobility focus group: http://mobility.luminis.nl/