Does Global RUU include the Android Beam?

skatergirl

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I thought that the Beam feature was part of Jelly Bean, but I see on the specs of the new Razr M that it has the Beam feature and it is shipping with ICS.
 
I see nothing that refers to sharing items via Beam. Just the usual share options.

Nothing referring to 'beam' in the apps drawer either.

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Nope. Android Beam relies on NFC technology, which is hardware the Rezound does not have.

I'm assuming most high end phones will have NFC going forward, but I imagine it won't get popular until the iPhone embraces it. Here's hoping Apple includes NFC in the iPhone 5.
 
You can get an NFC enabled SD card but it doesn't truly open up NFC as it has to be used with a specific app written to take advantage of the non-standard feature. I have played with "beam" with two of my own phones and it's certainly not as cool as you'd think. But then again neither is Google wallet. I mean who WANTS to pay for things?

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Nope. Android Beam relies on NFC technology, which is hardware the Rezound does not have.

I'm assuming most high end phones will have NFC going forward, but I imagine it won't get popular until the iPhone embraces it. Here's hoping Apple includes NFC in the iPhone 5.

App-who? Are you in the right forum? lol
 
My son and I have the Galaxy S3 and my wife has a Nexus 7 and we have been using beam and it is very handy. Very cool feature. It will be nice to see it on more phones. Give it a year and we all will be beaming. Lol

PS. I won't butt my phone up to an iPhone. #IPHONESTD
 
You can get an NFC enabled SD card but it doesn't truly open up NFC as it has to be used with a specific app written to take advantage of the non-standard feature. I have played with "beam" with two of my own phones and it's certainly not as cool as you'd think. But then again neither is Google wallet. I mean who WANTS to pay for things?
Yea, the SD card thing sounds like it would be only a sort of half-fix. That said, it's probably better than nothing.

I think Beam will become more useful over time once the hardware and software as standard as Bluetooth. Paying for things with a phone will likely become as ubiquitous as credit cards are today. I just we had better universal way to reliably transfer files. Bluetooth transfers are always such a complete PITA, even when it works, and my understanding is NFC can initiate but still relies on BT to do the actual transfer.

App-who? Are you in the right forum? lol
Just ignore that crazy talk. :-P
 

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