• nudny ekscentryk@szmer.info
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t RFID compatible with NFC antennas? There’s plenty of apps on F-Droid to interact with RFID tags using NFC.

    Same thing for IRDA, some manufacturers still do include it in their devices.

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      1 year ago

      RFID compatible with NFC antennas

      Only the HF RFID stuff. There is also LF and UHF RFID. FZ has an LF RFID antenna.

      “NFC tags are a subcategory of HF RFID technology. All NFC tags are HF RFID tags, but not all HF RFID tags are NFC tags. NFC operates in a very specific subset of the high-frequency range —13.56 MHz— and have very different use cases and implementation considerations from other RFID categories”
      https://www.resourcelabel.com/resources/comparing-different-types-of-rfid-tags/

      Same thing for IRDA

      IrDA isn’t the same as IR. There were some phones with an actual IR blaster built in but most were IrDA.

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        1 year ago

        okay, so what are practical things flipper zero can do that phones with NFC antennas and IR blasters can’t?