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pixelcort on Sept 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: NFC enabled business cards

For read only data (such as business card data), what is the benefit of using NFC over RFID? I was under the impression that NFC is backwards compatible; can Android devices with NFC scan RFID tags?

klinquist on Sept 27, 2012 [–]

NFC is a subset of RFID. There are many RFID frequency bands.

Android devices can read most 13.56mhz tags... but none of the other bands.

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