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Munchie

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30th Oct 12 at 16:30

No, not the chicken shop.

Near Field Communication.....I have this on my device, can it be used for anything good?!

Or is it a waste of me having it ?!

AlunJ

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30th Oct 12 at 16:34

seems to me that no one is actually bothering to implement it on phones

Brett

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30th Oct 12 at 17:01

Not over here anyway, im sure galaxy's have it elsewhere in the world.

Munchie

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30th Oct 12 at 17:06

i have it on my tablet. i think you can buy NFC stickers and that you can do stuff with it......

ah well, prob never use it.

andy_mk3

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30th Oct 12 at 17:13

Could be a very useful thing if it was made use of like

but you can buy tags and 'program' them. I know of some people who have them on their desk to change it onto a quiet sound profile or one as they get home to enable wifi and stuff.

AndyKent

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30th Oct 12 at 17:27

Had a contactless credit card for well over a year and set to see shops make use of that system even with millions of other credit cards in the system.

Seem to be a bit hampered by the M25 barrier

Reecemac

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30th Oct 12 at 17:57

You can get programmable stickers, I had a test one and I programmed it to turn my phone to silent mode on my work pc so not very useful, sure more could be done and I used google wallet to buy lunch in the co-op.

Toby

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30th Oct 12 at 18:07

i use google wallet on mine but there are some pretty creative stuff out there.

A2H GO

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30th Oct 12 at 18:12

quote:
Originally posted by andy_mk3
Could be a very useful thing if it was made use of like but you can buy tags and 'program' them. I know of some people who have them on their desk to change it onto a quiet sound profile or one as they get home to enable wifi and stuff.

I set mine to do that without NFC, just another gimmick atm.

A2H GO

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30th Oct 12 at 18:16

quote:
Originally posted by Toby
i use google wallet on mine but there are some pretty creative stuff out there.

I'm still too afraid to put my bank details into this open source software

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30th Oct 12 at 19:02

Google Wallet isn't open source.

John

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30th Oct 12 at 20:11

Open source software can also be more secure because people can see where the problems are and fix them.

A2H GO

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30th Oct 12 at 20:22

So it's OK to put my card details into both the play store and google wallet? I've genuinely been nervous about doing it...

John

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30th Oct 12 at 20:39

Yes

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30th Oct 12 at 21:28

Yet he's happy to sell junk on eBay and use PayPal.

John

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30th Oct 12 at 21:34

I'd trust Google more if they were keeping my details in a text file than I trust PayPal or eBay.

Reecemac

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31st Oct 12 at 03:44

I didn't put my card on it yet, I used the $10 free they give you, well gave, I think the promo's ended now. Some funny looks from people working there when I paid too.

[Edited on 31-10-2012 by Reecemac]

A2H GO

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31st Oct 12 at 08:00

Seems like everyday there are reports of android getting hacked, it's not just the play store I'm worried about its what the third party apps may do with those details and how secure stuff like the baking apps are. For example the company I work for, 6th largest bank in the UK refuse to make an android app because of security issues and only a few weeks ago NFC was hacked so youd be naive not to question it.

Ed