Kyocera Echo Update Just Confrim, NFC?

Last week the Kyocera Echo gets Gingerbread and today Sprint and Kyocera confirm the update and also made some announcement, a WiFi call and NFC reader support.

The WiFi calling is really nice but the NFC support not so much. The porblem is that the Echo hardware doesn't really support NFC, it does have the chip but not the antenna in order for the NFC to properly working. Could the Echo have an improve hardware or just an accessory for the NFC or a new brother with proper NFC?