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Competition is heating up. HTC launched two NFC supported phones Phone 8x (for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon) and Phone 8S with Windows 8 with screen resolution of 1280x720 (8x) and 800x480(8c). Both use the Snapdragon S4 processor from Qualcom's system on a chip ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_(system_on_chip)#Snapdragon_S4 ). Some say that 8x almost indistinguishable from Lumia 920, http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57516060-94/htc-windows-phone-8x-vs-nokia-lumia-920-specs-and-more/ (competition heating across the board at all levels!). HTC is third behind Apple and Samsung in the market share in North America ( http://www.hartware.de/news_55910.html ).

This deal will be one of several that Microsoft signed with others such as, Panasonic, Sony and Cannon (all Japanese). The motivation for RIMM ( http://us.blackberry.com/ ) is to be able to face Apple and Google squarely in the face and of course it aligns with Microsoft's wish as well. exFAT created for flash drives has better specs than the FAT system (which is not all that fat, could not stiffle the pun) in terms of file sizes (32 exabytes vs 32GB), formatting size, files in a directory limits all eliminated. Vista was not popular but exFAT was made its debut in Vista SP1. You may ask why not NTFS but NTFS has overheads for its special structure not suited for a small footprint. exFAT is not just for Microsoft windows you can use it on MAC as well for models later than with SnowLeopard ( https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2790170?start=0&tstart=0 ) Well, good luck to you RIMM. Get a some more tech info here: http://www.on-time.com/rtos-32-docs/rtfiles-32/program...

Looks like Apple is satisfied with Passbook for now and has not gone for NFC. What are they thinking? Do they want to shore up passbook against a more useful NFC Technology. Despite Apple not choosing NFC, it will be a thing that is sure to come and stay. Apple says NFC adoption is slow but how long did it take to go from desktop to smartphone? Proxama ( http://www.proxama.com/products-and-services /)has taken upon itself to provide an interface to NFC from iPhone5 could only be a temporary fix. Follow the full story here.  here:http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231257/iPhone_5_Why_no_NFC_ SmarterPhones than Apple such as those from Google,Microsoft,Nokia have accepted to support NFC including many wireless carriers. Read previous posts on NFC here: http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2012/05/will-nokia-bundled-with-nfc-steal.html http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2012/07/e-komo-mai-windows-8-phone.html

Here is some brief  info gathered from Samsung's site:  http://www.samsung.com/global/ativ/ ATIV S with Windows 8 debutted recently is just the tip of the iceberg and soon more of it will be visible and available. A rather serious contender for the Apple's hegemony. ATIV Tab, a tablet that runs a great marathon with Windows RT and what its makers call 'outstanding mobility' ATIV Smart PC - a tablet and a notebook PC combo that morphs easily from one to the other. ATIV SmartPC Pro designed for Windows 8 with Full PC Experiecne with Intel Coe i5/i3 processor, clam shell design with a full qwerty. Watch these stocks: MSFT, NOK  Even Mad Money Cramer likes MSFT and says Steve is going to resurrect MSFT