[Android News] NFC tags

What Are NFC Tags and How Do You Use Them?

Near Field Communication, or NFC, has been mentioned a few times here on Android.Appstorm, including a few articles by yours truly. The topic really fascinates and excites me because of the endless possibilities it affords us. About a year ago I wrote an article entitled Near Field Communication and the Future of Mobile, where I outlined what’s in store for NFC-enabled cell phones, of which Android has a few.

However, NFC isn’t only for phones. There are devices called NFC tags, and they can really shake up the way we do things.

As a quick refresher, NFC is the ability for 2 devices to send data to each other simply by touching. Right now, the word device implies a cell phone or tablet. You may have seen this commercial by Samsung where the data transfer is demonstrated in a real life situation.

Sample NFC Tags

Source:  AppStorm

[Android App] CycleDroid

CycleDroid allows you to track your movement using GPS and display parameters such as: current speed, average speed, maximum speed, total time, total distance and current altitude. Tracking can be easily stopped, if needed. Application allows for creating trips and assigning collecting data to a specified trip.

CycleDroid provides also a functionality of drawing graphs: altitude/distance, speed/distance, speed/time. You can easily zoom in a graph using multi-touch. Application allows also to save particular graph or its part as an image file.

 

At Google Play.

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From here...

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Info from here.

[Android ROM] Ginger Fast v2 with Bravia and Xloud

Ginger Fast is based on Gingerxperiav22. It's fast and stable with good battery time, flashplayer and multi-touch, overclock.

From this thread.