It's pricey and often complicated to incorporate NFC at this stage. The phones that have it so far are more like experimental/reference platforms than anything else. When NFC is available on combo chips it will be everywhere, and manufacturers are just starting to commit properly now - Samsung and Acer have indicated all their future smartphones will have NFC within the last few days, BlackBerry is going the same way, and dear old Nokia could be too. Basically, it is still early days...
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It's pricey and often complicated to incorporate NFC at this stage. The phones that have it so far are more like experimental/reference platforms than anything else. When NFC is available on combo chips it will be everywhere, and manufacturers are just starting to commit properly now - Samsung and Acer have indicated all their future smartphones will have NFC within the last few days, BlackBerry is going the same way, and dear old Nokia could be too. Basically, it is still early days...
Well Nokia has definitely committed to NFC early on. All their recent smartphones have NFC, and all future models will have it. There's the device list: http://www.developer.nokia.com/Devices/Device_specifications...
Also their recent accessories support bluetooth pairing with NFC, with single tap.
Likewise HTC's Head of Product mentioned all HTC phones in the US as of next year will start having NFC.