“With rumors claiming the iPhone 6 will include a near field communications (NFC) chip from NXP to potentially support a mobile payments initiative from Apple flying in recent days, the existence of the chip now appears to have been confirmed,” Eric Slivka reports for MacRumors. “Luxury modified iPhone vendor Feld & Volk [Instagram page], which has shared a number of claimed parts from the iPhone 6 in recent weeks, has now gotten its hands on a complete logic board for the device.”
Slivka reports, “The firm has shared a few photos of the logic board with Sonny Dickson, revealing the board’s NFC chip from NXP.”
Read more, and see the photos in the full article here.
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