HTC One S with NFC ?

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salutcemoi

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Try to download Google Wallet from the Play Store:

It will say something like : " this app is not supported by your device"
 

AKToronto

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I think the best that we can hope for is for a smart company or group of ppl to come up with credit card sized device that can connect to your phone via bluetooth and provide a link between NFC and bluetooth.

Im sure someone is working on this. Bluetooth signals can be encrypted too, so I think our best bet is to stop wishing for the impossible, and check out specs, etc for such a device, and then lobby google play, etc to allow Google Wallet to be downloaded onto your device assuming it can support a bluetooth connected seperate NFC device.
 

PcFish

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I think the best that we can hope for is for a smart company or group of ppl to come up with credit card sized device that can connect to your phone via bluetooth and provide a link between NFC and bluetooth.

Im sure someone is working on this. Bluetooth signals can be encrypted too, so I think our best bet is to stop wishing for the impossible, and check out specs, etc for such a device, and then lobby google play, etc to allow Google Wallet to be downloaded onto your device assuming it can support a bluetooth connected seperate NFC device.

Still wouldn't trust it. Google wallet isn't completely secure yet.
Not to mention bluetooth is less secure than WPA. (WPA can be hacked in under 5 minutes)
And you're increasing the range of broadcast by using bluetooth, whereas NFC is a small distance.
 

AKToronto

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Still wouldn't trust it. Google wallet isn't completely secure yet.
Not to mention bluetooth is less secure than WPA. (WPA can be hacked in under 5 minutes)
And you're increasing the range of broadcast by using bluetooth, whereas NFC is a small distance.

Good point PcFish. I was thinking about this too. What would be interesting though is a card that could connect to your phone via bluetooth or a teather, and then function on its own as an NFC device, so that you could turn the bluetooth off but still have some relevant info flashed to the card. That would solve the issue of bluetooth and range.

It should be possible!

AK
 

PcFish

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Good point PcFish. I was thinking about this too. What would be interesting though is a card that could connect to your phone via bluetooth or a teather, and then function on its own as an NFC device, so that you could turn the bluetooth off but still have some relevant info flashed to the card. That would solve the issue of bluetooth and range.

It should be possible!

AK

May as well have a stand-alone NFC device dedicated for the stuff. lol.

But I do get where you're coming from. I was thinking maybe something like those credit card swipe doohickeys they have for smartphones that plug into the headphone jack. Where instead of a credit card thing, there's an NFC modem.
 

bb2htc

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Anyone checked for NFC after the JB update?

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Terminator19

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It doesn't matter if a metal or plastic body is being used.

The Sony xperia P has an all aluminium uni-body yet it has NFC.

They probably didn't include it because the X would have one less advantage over the S.
 

xxquicksh0txx

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It doesn't matter if a metal or plastic body is being used.

The Sony xperia P has an all aluminium uni-body yet it has NFC.

They probably didn't include it because the X would have one less advantage over the S.

And nfc isn't exactly main stream yet. So why put it in(which raises production cost) when there's hardly any places to use it.

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Dverez

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That phone on the video might have been the One SV on a test bench, (just bought one for my girlfriend a few weeks ago).
(NFC, LTE, micro SD slot added over the S version).
 

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