That's 630m devices – up from 44m this year.
New research from Informa is very positive of the roll out of contactless tech inside phones.
It says total NFC handset shipments are expected to grow from almost 44 million in 2011 to over 630 million in 2015, representing 40 per cent of all new handsets, up from 3.5 per cent at present.
It adds that Android will power these sales, accounting for over 75 per cent of NFC handset shipments by 2015.
Guillermo Escofet, senior analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media, said: “We expect a modest growth of the mobile NFC market for the next two years but this will change as many of the leading players introduce NFC-enabled handsets, spurred to enter the market by fear of Apple’s and Google’s ambitions in the sector.
"Google has already played its hand, overshadowing moves by carriers in its home territory, the US. Apple is still waiting in the wings, leaving everyone guessing."
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The availability of NFC handsets will depend on the speed of deployment of NFC-enabled POS infrastructure, the handset vendors’ perception of the scale of the commitment to the market from the mobile operators, and the financial services and retail sectors.
In terms of value, Informa projects the total value of the transactions from mobile NFC payments is expected to grow from around $2.4 billion in 2011 to over $71 billion by 2015.
At present 90 per cent of the rev comes from Asia Pacific (mostly Japan and South Korea) but this share will drop to around 40 per cent by 2015 as Western Europe and North America start to see strong adoption of mobile NFC services
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What the buck is NFC?
Peter Gil Oct 2nd 2011 at 1:11PM
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