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NFC Sweetens Gingerbread

Posted December 09, 2010 8:30 AM by embeddedreporter
Pathfinder Tags: Android 2.3 gingerbread near field communication NFC RFID Samsung Nexus S

No, America, I'm not talking about the National Football Conference and Christmas decorations. I'm talking about one of the ways smartphones are going to be used for all kinds of transactions in the near future, and it's coming to the Samsung Nexus S next week.

Near field communication (NFC) is a close cousin of RFID made for very short range contactless transactions. It's just made it into the latest release of Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread, and as it turns out is supported with an NXP chip in the Samsung Nexus S hitting BestBuy shortly. A very inexpensive tag can be placed on something like a movie poster, or a garment, or even a document, and an enabled smartphone can be swiped close by (a few inches) and read the tag.

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Re: NFC Sweetens Gingerbread

12/10/2010 9:44 AM

Almost two years ago, CR4 interviewed Anthony Belpaire of Tikitag, an Alcatel-Lucent venture that makes some of the "inexpensive tags" to which embeddedreporter refers. Tikitag may not have been a Hot New Technology of 2009, as I then believed, but we may be hearing more about them in 2011.

Mr. Belpaire now seems prescient in asserting it's really "just a matter of time" before more North American smartphones use NFC. Hopefully, we'll hear from him again soon, as I've asked him to comment on this latest development.
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