If you’ve ever used mobile payments on your smartphone, you might wondering how it works, and what is NFC on Android? NFC – or Near Field Communication – is a type of wireless communication standard.

You may have heard the term NFC before, especially if you're an Android user. Google's mobile operating system has had this hardware feature for over a decade, but many users aren't sure what it does.

Online payments enabler PayPal today unveiled its first NFC (near-field communication) solution for Android devices at the MobileBeat 2011 conference in San Francisco. Laura Chambers, senior director ...

Optus customers using certain Android devices will soon be able to make payments with their mobile phone, thanks to a new near-field communications (NFC) SIM that Optus has announced in partnership ...

New evidence reveals that Google is working on some form of NFC-based contact sharing on Android, similar to iPhone’s “NameDrop,” but it’s very early days. Apple introduced “NameDrop” on iPhone as a ...

Google is working to add support for NFC Wireless Charging into Android 15. Many smaller devices don’t support Qi wireless charging because they don’t have enough space to fit a charging receiver coil ...