http://gigaom.com/2004/05/30/yet-another-bluetooth-rival/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:36:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2004/05/30/yet-another-bluetooth-rival/#comment-97166 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/05/30/yet-another-bluetooth-rival/#comment-97166 From what I’ve heard, NFC is more like a sub-PAN wireless technology used more for authentication purposes and security. For instance, to pair two bluetooth devices, you could just touch them together using NFC to initiate automatic pairing. Also, its very intuitive from the human perspective. You want to control the radio w/ phone, touch them together. You want to sync with pc, touch, etc. It’s not a bluetooth replacement since the conversating devices actually need to be so close that they do or barely make contact, its more of a complementary technology that can be used with bluetooth, wifi, uwb, you name it.

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