HTC has added another smartphone to its One family this morning, this time catering to those with a taste for mid-range devices that don’t break the bank. It’s called the One SV, and it’s headed to EE — the United Kingdom’s first and only 4G carrier — with 4G connectivity in the coming weeks.
Got an Android phone with NFC and ticked off you can’t use it anywhere for mobile payments? Blame Apple. According to one industry watcher, the Cupertino-based tech company is responsible for setting back the emerging NFC market by two years in the United States.
Is it Sunday already? I guess that means it’s time to give away more Android Swag! Last week we were giving away two Cruzerlite Bugdroid Plushies and today we’re going to announce the lucky winners, as well as give you a chance to win some new swag.
If you’ve been following up on the Black Hat conference going on in Las Vegas, you may have heard about how NFC can be used to execute malicious code on an Android device. While the hack, demonstrated by security researcher Charlie Miller, does expose an issue with the way Android should handle NFC commands, it’s likely to result in more good than it is actual harm.
A few weeks back I did a review on some NFC tags from https://tagsfordroid.com and with the majority of newer devices (including the Nexus 7) now being NFC enabled, I couldn’t help but wonder how many users have actually purchased NFC tags for their NFC enabled devices?
