Android Beam takes us to the future of close-proximity data exchange (video)

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Remember when HP showed off transferring webpages from the TouchPad tablet to the Pre 3 just by touching? Remember thinking “Wow, that’d be cool if I actually had a TouchPad and a Pre 3?” Android Beam is the answer to that problem, a version of that very same functionality that works across NFC-devices running Ice Cream Sandwich – namely, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. We got the chance to play with a few phones that had the appropriate software builds and batteries, and found the functionality to be quick and useful – when things weren’t crashing. More after the break.Continue reading Android Beam takes us to the future of close-proximity data exchange (video)
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