Nokia Lumia 610NFC officially unveiled

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Paul Briden

Nokia’s Lumia 610NFC has been officially unveiled with Orange and it features NFC from the off

Published on Apr 11, 2012

The Nokia Lumia 610NFC was officially unveiled today and Nokia has released an official video showcasing its capabilities.

Nokia‘s video demonstrates that you can use the Lumia 610NFC for Mastercard Paypass and Visa payWave payments, to play music through enabled Bluetooth speakers and with configurable tags which you can setup to change your phone’s settings at a swipe.

Alternatively, tags can be used to ‘Like’ things via Facebook or to ‘Check in’ on Foursquare.

‘Nokia continues to lead the field in NFC with this latest implementation on the Windows Phone platform, in which we have the full support of Orange,’ said Ilari Nurmi, head of product marketing for Nokia’s Smart Devices business unit.

‘We’re bringing NFC right across our portfolio, and together with our ever-growing range of NFC accessories we’re making it easy for people to connect via a single tap. We’re also enabling operators and other service providers to build NFC payment and ticketing solutions on top of our smartphones.’

Aside from the NFC capability the phone appears to be very similar to the existing Lumia 610 handset, which will mean a 3.7-inch WVGA resolution touchscreen, an 800MHz Qualcomm processor with 256MB of RAM and 8GB of storage. All running on Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, of course.

Nokia revealed that Orange will be the first UK network to make the Lumia 610NFC available to its customers.

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