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Well, that's pretty cool--I'm not much of an Apple user lately (iTunes not available for any of my devices/OSs) but I don't think iPhones have NFC and that's th
by fluidcruft 14y ago
Well, that's pretty cool--I'm not much of an Apple user lately (iTunes not available for any of my devices/OSs) but I don't think iPhones have NFC and that's the part that I'm pretty impressed about. I guess I view streaming as a solved problem, so that's not really what I'm impressed about.
What excites me more is I think Nexus Q is showing us how a future can work where we're surrounded by networked displays and screens that we may or may not own, but we can still get full use of just by being physically in front of them. That's what I think is exciting. I can see the functionality of the Nexus Q built into TVs in the future--just connect the TV to the internet and touch your phone to it and boom, everything's set up without fussing with passwords and accounts. Visit your parents, touch your phone to the TV and boom it's as if it's your own TV.
- jsz0 14y agoI'm not really sure why they are even using NFC for the setup. All the streaming is done over wifi anyway. I guess NFC could be used to reconfigure the wifi as needed which could be useful in some cases where your streaming target is on a different network.
- fluidcruft 14y agoNo, it doesn't stream from the phone to the Nexus Q. It tells the Nexus Q where to get it from the cloud. The NFC is a handshake based on physical proximity to establish credentials for the Q to access the your cloud ephemera. (wifi streaming may also be available as a feature, not sure)