NFC, which is short for near-field communication, is a technology that allows devices like phones and smartwatches to exchange small bits of data with other devices an… See more

As with most new technologies, there were many early applications for NFC that never really got any traction. For instance, Google came up with Android Beam as an idea for exchangin… See more

The list of NFC-equipped devices is growing every day. In fact, it’s probably easier these days to keep track of which phones don’tsupport NFC. The bottom line is that almo… See more

NFC is just one of several short-range wireless technologies, and with so many out there, it’s understandably getting hard to keep track. Thankfully, each of these is used for diff… See more

NFC is mostly a passive technology. It uses a mathematically insignificant amount of battery life and no processing power at all unless you’re actually interacting with another NF… See more