Apple renonce au NFC pour son prochain iPhone. Why Apple must launch NFC in the iPhone 5. On 14th of March 2011, The Independent newspaper from the UK published an article suggesting that the iPhone 5 would not include Near-Field Communication (NFC) capability.
A few days later on the 17 March, Forbes rebutted the Guardian’s article quoting a source that said NFC was a sure thing. Who’s right, and will Apple delay their NFC launch to better perfect the tech? The Independent article was surprising as it was hot off the heals of Google already launching their Nexus-S handset with NFC capability and a host of other manufacturers were flocking to utilize Android’s new OS codenamed Gingerbread. Of course, having an NFC chip in a handset doesn’t automatically mean that you can use it in a constructive manner for stuff like payments, coupon redemption and interactions at the point-of-sale. Then again, if you don’t have an NFC chip that’s basically a guarantee that you can’t do all that sexy contactless stuff (unless you use tags for example). iPhone 5 Today.
9 to 5 Mac iPhone 5 to have aluminum back, new antenna design? GadgetsDNA (via MacRumors) reports that a radical new design is in the works for iPhone 5 which is somewhat inspired by the iPod touch.
Machine translated: According to a Chinese source, Apple is changing the rear part of iPhone 5 to aluminum which was used for first iPhone’s instead of glass or might adopt the design similar to iPod touch 4G, after facing lots of issues with white paint and scratches on rear glass surface, reported Taiwan’s Economic Daily News. Decision to design iPhone 5 similar to iPod touch instead of using glass was arrived after receiving number of complaints. Apple seems to stop damages from scratching, issues after painting it white (for white iPhone 5), weight of glass and want to make it more durable instead.Antenna will be designed just behind Apple Logo so that cellular and Wi-Fi signal can penetrate easily.
Side exposed steel antennas seem to be abandoned, as designed in iPhone 4.