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Thanx for the write-up. I tend to agree, but would add that while the Evo has 3d capabilities and ostensibly provides a better gaming experience, the Nexus has out of the box wireless tethering and NFC integration. Now the wireless tethering can be addressed with rooting, however the NFC integration with the Nexus gives it a more useful advantage that rooting cannot address. For example, one can buy an NFC chip and program it with their Nexus or use it as it becomes more popular in the coming year. Already web sites are starting to appear that sell NFC chips and Amazon even has them.
Honestly, can someone explain why as consumers we should be excited for NFC? I mean I understand why Apple and Google are happy and Visa and MC probably are not. To me, it looks like a new way to facilitate monetary transactions. Are there going to be things you can only buy with NFC? Will credit cards not be supported at the end of the two year contract and you will have to go back to using cash? I love gadgets and new things as much as the next person but I hink an extra processing.core will be more handy when these phones start to get long in the tooth in a few years.
@Jimmy NFC is basically Bluetooth's cooler older brother.
At its core it's just a wireless data transmission protocol, but what that means (because it's so powerful) is that any 2 devices that have NFC can hook up in any way
For example, as you alluded to, you could touch your phone to a pad at Walmart to pay for something instead of swiping your card through the machine. That probably won't ever be the ONLY way to pay for something, but it's much more convenient (pretty popular in Japan).
Extending on that, if you owe someone $7.23 for your split of a pizza, you could just both whip out the phones and transfer the money over (owing someone money is the biggest hassle in the known universe.)
Outside of payments, it has many other phone-to-phone concepts. The old "tell me your number and i'll type it in and send you a text with my name and blah blah blah" routine of exchanging numbers will die, just press "exchange" and tap phones together and it'll auto-add to contacts. Similarly transfer any type of file, game save, whatever you might want.
Other non-phone-to-phone examples could be ID (the university I work for is especially excited for this one, our current key-card system feels old and we all want NFC-entry to our offices lol), and even to the extreme end anything crazy like house automation (Turn off the lights/TV/AC, whatever when you leave and turn it all back on when you walk in the front door) etc
Essentially NFC symbolizes (but as of now doesn't fully embody) all of the cool possibilities of wirelessly doing things
(lol sorry for the rant, I just like the idea of NFC xD)
I love that NFC is being used in some facet, but IMO google's NFC app is the least convincing usage of NFC
Basically everything that app can do is like a dumbed down version of what Tasker can do without NFC tags, thay're just a fancier (more expensive) way to do it
When we start getting things that NFC can do that other things can't (pay for things, etc (see my earlier post)), then I'll be chomping at the bit, as of now, a resounding meh.