All Nokia smartphones released by the company from 2011 will come with NFC (Near Field Communication) technology built in, according to Near Field Communications World (NFCW).

The announcement was made by Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s executive vice president for markets, at the Mobey Forum's 10th anniversary meeting in Helsinki.

Nokia was one of the first handset-makers to release an NFC-enabled phone, but has been quiet about its plans for NFC in recent months.

In March this year, Barclaycard head of innovation marketing Sarah Mansfield revealed that the financial services firm would enable mobile NFC contactless payments before the end of 2010 in a partnership with UK mobile operator, Orange, but refused to be drawn on who would be making the phones.

Like Bluetooth, NFC is also a short range communication technology, but it differs in the way that one need not manually configure to identify devices. In NFC, the connection between two devices is established at a rate of faster than a tenth of a second.

So the NFC enabled phones will be able to transmit data wherever NFC transmitters are placed. This will help you in locating things in a supermarket equipped with NFC transmitters or while travelling you can transfer data from counters containing NFC transmitters to get any kind of information about the place.

Anssi Vanjoki, Vice President for Nokia marketing said of the NFC technology, "The company was positioning itself on the emerging NFC technology market. Every smartphone developed by the company would use the Single Wire Protocol (SWP) part from certain other security features like MicroSD."