Pick up any modern smartphone, and you know to expect it to support the familiar cast of wireless standards. It’s got to have cellular communication, obviously, as well as Wi-Fi. And right after those two, almost certainly Bluetooth and NFC. Seeing new standards like UWB still struggle to find broad support, it feels all the more impressive just how ubiquitous the others have become.
Just what do you know about these protocols that find a home in so many of the mobile devices we use? Last month at CES, I sat down with Mike McCamon, Executive Director of the NFC Forum, to pick his brain about where NFC is headed next, and why users like you should be excited about it.