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Agreed about #3 especially. My wife and I both recently got NFC-capable phones and we can allegedly send photos and contacts back and forth, but there seem to
by hamburglar 13y ago
Agreed about #3 especially. My wife and I both recently got NFC-capable phones and we can allegedly send photos and contacts back and forth, but there seem to be severe problems at both the basic communication level (it is extremely difficult to get the two devices to even make the NFC handshake because the NFC antennas need to be aligned so ridiculously precisely), and at the application level (once you actually manage to get them to beep and communicate, Windows Phone and Android apparently don't agree on content types or something, because you just get errors saying the content type isn't supported).
For a technology that's supposed to make sharing data so quick and easy, it seems like a really bad sign that I have not been able to make it work even once, despite sitting there fiddling with it for probably 20 minutes. It's like someone looked at the extremely painful and ill-defined bluetooth pairing user experience and said, "yeah, that's a good starting point, but let's make it a little more frustrating."