NFC unsuited to "duplicating" your tablet
NFC unsuited to "duplicating" your tablet
Posted Nov 21, 2012 1:49 UTC (Wed) by ewan (guest, #5533)In reply to: NFC unsuited to "duplicating" your tablet by corbet
Parent article: Android 4.2, tablets, and related thoughts
AIUI the way the 'Android beam' feature works is to use the NFC to negotiate a device-to-device Bluetooth connection which then does the actual data transfer. The NFC step is essentially for authentication - on the basis that it's just so short range that you must have deliberately brought the devices close together to do the transfer.