How to add NFC support to a non-NFC phone, part 2

Have a non-NFC phone ? Friends would like to share stuff with you from their NFC enabled phones without the bluetooth hassle?

Easy, all you need is a NFC tag and another phone to write the Bluetooth connection information to the tag. Obviously this won't magically turn your non-NFC phone into an active NFC device, but will make it into a passive target.

The following video shows what to do.



I got my tags from TagAge

NFC Enabling a non-nfc phone

NFC is a fun technology, the most classic example seems to be the tap-and-share

functionality. Unfortunately, NFC is still pretty rare among phones and none of the more cheaper ones support NFC in any way. (Which is strange, Nokia had two S40 Series phones with NFC already in 2008)

But for the simple tap-and-share from NFC phone to non-NFC there is a very simple solution. Check out this video demonstrating NFC tap-and-share from a Nokia N9 to a Nokia 500.



Next post will explain how to do it.