NFC-enabled phones: forecast analysis

Key messages

Understanding the challenges of developing NFC-enabled handsets

• Dependencies on the overall take-up of NFC
• Handset architecture options
• Standardisation is still ongoing
• Cost
• Application support

Vendor strategies

• NFC will be pervasive
• Opportunities in operator-independent NFC use cases

NFC-enabled phone forecasts

• Definitions
• Market development scenario
• NFC-enabled phone shipments
• NFC-enabled phone penetration in handset sales

Appendix: analysis of historic contactless phones development in Japan

• Overview
• Osaifu-Keitai handset user base
• Osaifu-Keitai handset shipments

• Figure 1: Penetration of NFC in global handset sales compared to other technologies
• Figure 2: Simplified NFC-enabled phone architecture
• Figure 3: Identification of cost factors for NFC handsets
• Figure 4: Percentage of phones shipped by NTT DoCoMo that are compatible with Osaifu-Keitai services
• Figure 5: Penetration of camera phones and Bluetooth-enabled phones in global phone sales