NFC tags are small, passive devices made of three primary components: a thin coil of copper or aluminum wire, a tiny silicon ...

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A data transfer function added to Android phones starting with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Using near field communication (NFC), Android Beam lets users copy data from one Android device to ...

The NFC product enables the installed base ... “We actually support additional platforms (BlackBerry, Android and many other GSM phones), but we recommend to our partners that they focus their ...

Often the term will bring to mind the ability to pay by holding your phone over a reader, but the system can also use NFC tags embedded in credit cards, ID card, passports, and the like.

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