Thread: N9 NFC to other device (Samsung S3)
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2012-11-27 , 10:17
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Originally Posted by thedead1440 View Post
I think this is a device limitation; NFC on Nokia phones use Bluetooth as the base medium while on Android Google decided to use WiFi hence the incompatibility..
Interesting, I didn't know that. OTOH - wtf? I mean, why would Android choose WiFi? I'd assume that in 80% of the cases when people want to transfer files, they're not both on the same WiFi network, if on any WiFi network at all. Seems like a very unstable solution...?

(Or was WiFi just an example and it would work as long as the devices are just online, including 3G?)