NFC (near-field communication) will hit the big time in mobile phones next year, joining an array of emerging features that carriers are clamoring for, according to communications chip maker Broadcom.

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Banks, credit card issuers, telecommunications providers and cellular-phone manufacturers all are battling to carve out a role in the nascent mobile-payments market. In May, Google unveiled plans to ...

The invisible technology powering your daily life is right in your pocket. Near Field Communication (NFC) has revolutionized how we pay, commute, and interact with the world around us. But are you ...

Consumers have panned OnePlus with a laundry list of grievances, spanning the lack of NFC in the OnePlus 2 and OnePlus X, that notorious invite system, and its seemingly dubious “Never Settle” motto.

That’s NFC and contactless payments in action. It’s fast, it’s easy, and honestly, it’s one of the most secure ways to pay these days. We’re going to break down what makes this technology tick, why it ...

If you needed to order lunch or a cab or pull up your quarterly bank statement, you'd probably reach for one thing to do it: your smartphone. Our mobile devices have increasingly played an essential ...

That humble mobile phone could soon become an indispensable tool for a range of business applications, thanks to a new wireless technology. Near-field communication (NFC), the short-range wireless ...

Here are the top time-consuming tasks I automated in my house with NFC tags.