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‘Tap to Share’ coming to Android 2.3.3?

February 19th, 2011        

‘Tap to Share’ coming to Android 2.3.3?

We’ve seen demos of HP using their Pre 3 to send a webpage URL to a TouchPad just by tapping them together. Now it seemed that Google has also found the secret recipe to do that on their Android devices, and will be coming to Gingerbread loaded devices in Android 2.3.3. This adds some expanded functionality for working with the NFC chip found in the Nexus S (and, presumably, others soon) enabling, among other things, NFC to work with Bluetooth. As demonstrated a few weeks ago, the NFC chip can be used to send networking and establish a connection when the two phones touch, so no more manual pairing required, just sweet tapping and sharing.

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