[PLUG-TALK] NFC chips

Ronald Chmara ronabop at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 10:49:25 UTC 2011


On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:29 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> My new Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S2) has an NFC chip. For those not
> yet familiar with the acronym, it means "near field communication"
> which, in the case of the current implementation means ten centimeters.
> The most ballyhooed use of the NFC chip will be mobile payments,
> although I have a hard time figuring out why it's better than swiping a
> card. There are other uses, however.

I can't think of any possible problems.

Re-running a daily transaction? Not a problem.

People behind you in line picking up your ID? Not a problem.

It sounds great! It's just like credit cards that only have a one
decimeter range!

(Do I really need to get verbose here?)

-Bop



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