Date: 15/05/2012

Samsung GALAXY S III powered by NXP's NFC chips

NXP Semiconductors has announced that its PN65 mobile transactions solution to power the Samsung GALAXY S III that brings a new concept of human centric mobile experience. The highly anticipated Samsung GALAXY S III is the successor of the Samsung GALAXY S II.

The Samsung GALAXY S III engages mobile users with a 4.8 inch display, an 8MP camera and a fast quad core processor. NXP provides the NFC functionality for the smart phone GALAXY S III.

Powered by Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, the Samsung GALAXY S III supports secure NFC applications, such as wallets being launched by mobile network operators, card associations and other such as Google's Wallet. NXP's PN65 delivers good performance and seamless interoperability with various mobile use cases such as payment, transportation, access control and NFC tag reading.

"We are in the midst of a golden era of mobile and Samsung continues to set the bar with coveted products like the GALAXY S III," said Henri Ardevol, vice president and general manager, secure transactions with NXP Semiconductors. "Samsung's flagship phones require flagship-worthy NFC solutions and NXP is proud to support Samsung on its GALAXY S line. We eagerly look forward to the extraordinary mobile experiences the GALAXY S III will deliver including those enabled by NFC."