Nokia N9 won't support NFC mobile wallet or payments
In an unfortunate turn for folks looking forward to NFC payments using their N9s, lack of either an "embedded secure element" or the "Single Wire Protocol" will prevent the N9 from supporting mobile wallets: The Nokia N9 contains near field communication technology (NFC), but lacks support for either an embedded secure element or the Single Wire Protocol (SWP). According to NFC World, these elements are needed for use in secure NFC applications such as mobile wallet, ticketing and payments. Instead, Nokia is concentrating on the ‘connectivity’ aspect of NFC for file sharing, device pairing and tag reading.