Sonim has long been known for making some of the most ridiculously rugged, over-engineered handsets in the world, and the trend continues here at CTIA with a refreshed version of the venerable XP1300 Core. The new XP1301 Core NFC is nearly the same phone with one important exception — it's got an NFC back, capable of reading NFC tags from as far as 4cm away. Of course, most of the NFC-related news this year has focused on mobile payments — Google Wallet being the most prominent example — but Sonim's taking a different angle by focusing on developer-driven enterprise applications. The company came to the show with some mousepads with NFC tags attached, and each tag shows a variation of the phone's capabilities; examples include scanning worker ID badges, clocking in and out of a work facility, and marking a site job complete. This isn't the kind of stuff your average consumer is going to care about, but then again, Sonim doesn't make "average consumer" phones.
Sonim XP1301 Core NFC photos, video, and hands-on
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