Samsung’s TecTiles NFC-enabled stickers make operating your phone as simple as a tap of a button

With the kind of advancements in Smartphone technology we are seeing; it shouldn’t be
too long before we are able to control our phones, with just our mind! The latest invention
making our lives infinitely easier is the NFC-enabled TecTiles stickers by Samsung. Just when,
you thought there were no other uses for NFC technology than mobile money transfer,
Samsung has taken it upon itself to prove to the world just how much can be accomplished
with these little NFC stickers. You can launch apps, change settings, or even make phone
calls with a single tap of your phone. Each postage stamp-sized sticker can be programmed
by the user to trigger a single function on a Smartphone, when the phone is held in
proximity of the sticker’s surface. You will also be able to display a message of your choice
on someone else’s screen, place a call, launch an app, open a URL, check into Facebook,
automatically “like” something on Facebook, follow a Twitter contact, and connect on
LinkedIn and so many more. Each TecTile is easily reprogrammable a few thousand times.
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Samsung’s TecTiles are available in packs of five for $15. You have to also, download a free
app to go with the tiles. The app will work with the Samsung Galaxy S III, Galaxy Nexus,
Galaxy S II, Galaxy S Blaze 4G, and Nexus S, as well as some non-Samsung phones like HTC
One X, as all of these are NFC-enabled.

[Available at : Samsung and Theverge]

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Hoopla aside, Samsung selected to use cheap, proprietary NFC cards for their NFC launch. These cards (Mifare classic) are only available through NXP Semiconductors and are NOT one of the four tag types standardized by the NFC Forum. Consumers who purchase NXP's "classic" cards will have difficulties over the coming months when they find more and more phones won't read them. Other semiconductor makers will start to supply NFC chips to Android and other phones and tablets. Won't be good for Samsung owners if they continue to use proprietary technology for its TecTiles tags. These "classic" cards are cheap and plentiful so at least Samsung won't have problems with supply. They are also making over 300% profit by selling the old cards to us. The standards-compliant version of NFC such as the Type 4 DESFire will eventually become the norm as companies like Broadcom, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, etc are all on board. Did I mention the Mifare classic-based tags are not contactless technology and don't have the security or read range of the newer tag chips? Then there's Apple who excluded any type of NFC from the iPhone 5. Heh, I wish NFC the best of luck -- at least Blackberry seems to be supporting open standards as NFC becomes adopted.

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