With the arrival of Android Pay and Samsung Pay, the technologies related to NFCs have become very common. The high and medium ranges in the devices also incorporate NFC and there are so many ...

The Google Nexus S was the first Android device to include it all the way back in 2010. Apple also eventually embraced the technology in 2014 — NFC is present on every iPhone since the 6.

Programming an NFC tag from your NFC-capable Android device is extremely easy and can lend itself to some very useful scenarios.

Whichever device you have, it's likely that a local supermarket, train station, taxi or coffee shop supports contactless payments via your phone's NFC chip.

Reader/writer mode: Your device reads or writes to NFC tags Peer-to-peer mode: Two active devices exchange information Samsung's Galaxy Nexus pioneered NFC integration in smartphones in 2011.

Android featured ‘Android Beam,’ which was first introduced in 2011. It allowed you to transfer content quickly between other devices that had NFC capabilities.

Google's next generation of Android phones will include a new kind of technology called Near Field Communication, or NFC. Here's a primer on what it'll actually do for your device.

In addition, an NFC phone can read NFC tags embedded in other devices. At Google's I/O conference in San Francisco last month, tapping my phone against my badge opened a Play Store link to ...

A newly developed device uses NFC to add four programmable physical buttons to your Android devices.

However, Android 15 could enable the NFC hardware that's already present in your phone to transfer power to other devices or possibly even charge your phone.