NFC is going to be one of the technologies of 2012. This year it is releasing a brutal (Telefónica already playing with it at home) and the whole world is focused on providing to be the first to do something with it. London 2012, already released in the metro WiFi coverage will be a perfect testbed for payment via NFC technology.
Samsung and Visa have announced an agreement for using mobile terminals and created exclusively for the operation during this sporting event, both the Olympics and in the Paralympics can use NFC technology to make payments via a SIM provided VISA and may be used in shops in the city that will be prepared to accept "money".
As for the phone, Samsung could take it to the public once the sporting and social event comes to an end. In Tech News Buzz | NFC, what is and what it does. 
Samsung and Visa have announced an agreement for using mobile terminals and created exclusively for the operation during this sporting event, both the Olympics and in the Paralympics can use NFC technology to make payments via a SIM provided VISA and may be used in shops in the city that will be prepared to accept "money".
As for the phone, Samsung could take it to the public once the sporting and social event comes to an end. In Tech News Buzz | NFC, what is and what it does.
- Amazon considering jump into NFC mobile payments (04/04/2011)
- Visa and Samsung working together to bring NFC enabled mobile payments to the 2012 Olympics in London (04/04/2011)
- Hotel Londres review - Estoril, Portugal (19/03/2011)
- Amazon thinking of jumping into the mobile payments game, may launch NFC based solution in the fall (04/04/2011)
- Samsung and Visa prepping NFC Olympics phone (04/04/2011)
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