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  • YellowWing - Thursday, November 15, 2012 - link

    I ordered some 1K tags for my Nexus 4. The vendor now has info on their site that the tags will not work with Nexus 4 or Nexus 10. Something about the Broadcom controller not supporting NXP legacy tags.
  • MadMan007 - Thursday, November 15, 2012 - link

    Well, that's kind of bad. Do you trust the vendor, or are you willing to buy a few tags just to find out? If the new stack and/or chip really marks a bifurcation of NFC it's something worth Anandtech looking into and explaining I think, especially if it goes beyond NFC tags into other NFC functions.
  • Brian Klug - Friday, November 16, 2012 - link

    Weird, really? Any chance you can link me to the tags?

    -Brian
  • YellowWing - Friday, November 16, 2012 - link

    Brian

    I first saw it in the FAQ at tagsfordroid

    There is a discusion here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3...
  • jibz - Thursday, November 15, 2012 - link

    Isn't a "NFC NCI" the same as an "ATM Machine"? ;)
  • Death666Angel - Thursday, November 15, 2012 - link

    Or LCD display, which gets confused a lot even on anandtech.com :D.
  • Brian Klug - Friday, November 16, 2012 - link

    NFC (Near Field Controller) NFC Controller Interface (NCI), I fail to see what's an ATM Machine there, it's the proper way of writing the sentence or referring to the NCI.

    -Brian
  • jibz - Friday, November 16, 2012 - link

    I was simply pointing that, like when we talk about an ATM Machine (or an LCD Display), talking about an NFC NCI is redundant, since the N from NCI already stands for NFC. You could have written "The NFC Controller Interface (NCI) [...]". It's no biggie.
  • extide - Friday, November 16, 2012 - link

    They are just pointing out that if you expand all of that you get:
    Near Field Controller Controller Interface
  • jibz - Friday, November 16, 2012 - link

    The C in NFC stands for Communication, not Controller. So NFC NCI would be Near Field Communication Near Field Communication Controller Interface.
  • danjw - Thursday, November 15, 2012 - link

    With the change of NFC code, might that complicate back porting this to existing devices? I assume since this interface is new, that it isn't in those phones/tablets.
  • staticx57 - Saturday, November 17, 2012 - link

    " WebView rendering engine (which doesn’t apply to Chrome unfortunately)"

    Does Google ever plan on bringing Chrome on Android to the 21st century?
  • ImSpartacus - Saturday, November 24, 2012 - link

    I never thought I'd see an old MAW member on Anandtech. Small world, eh?

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