No to NFC

The authors repeat their previously reported conclusion that the short-range wireless technology called near field communications (NFC) is an unlikely feature on iPhone 5.

"Given the primarily metal backside of the new iPhone, it's highly unlikely that NFC is in the cards for this generation," they say. "In fact, given the very little space at top and bottom dedicated to those glass RF windows, you can almost entirely rule it out."

There are two reasons: if the rumors are right about the new metal body, that creates a huge obstacle to a reliable radiating NFC antenna; and the antenna itself in most current implementations consists of a lot of wires wrapped around something big, like a battery. Trying to jam the antenna into one of the top or bottom rear glass windows is problematic, because it makes trying to align the phone with NFC payment tokens, reader tags and the like a "much more confusing task, and that doesn't seem like the Apple-like level of polish everyone is waiting for to drive NFC adoption," Anandtech concludes.

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