I thought I saw NFC on the Surface Tablet when they made the announcement in June/July? Can someone verify? I'm excited about my Nokia 920 and I though I'd be able to touch the phone to the tablet to transfer things.
A random post on this forum isn't proof. I too remember seeing an NFC demo during the Surface reveal. I was fairly certain that it was one of the required specs for the OS on a tablet (like the minimum screen resolution, memory, storage, etc.).
A random post on this forum isn't proof. I too remember seeing an NFC demo during the Surface reveal. I was fairly certain that it was one of the required specs for the OS on a tablet (like the minimum screen resolution, memory, storage, etc.).
Not sure if I remember them demoing it or I'm mixing it up with the WP8 demos but they must have changed something because its not listed on the official specs:
im going to have to look for the surface reveal video because I remember them touching each other to transfer a photo. This is something I was planning to show off. ;-)
im going to have to look for the surface reveal video because I remember them touching each other to transfer a photo. This is something I was planning to show off. ;-)
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Is this the video you were talking about?:
I scanned through it and didn't see anything, but I didn't watch the whole thing so there's a VERY good chance I skipped over it.
It sounds like the surface team didn't dedicate time/priority to adding an NFC antenna and instead focused on the case. The quote is below so judge for yourself, but i don't read of an actual problem with the Mg case and NFC, I read it as - the case was critical in our dev process, nfc was not.
For the product design experience we were aiming for with Surface, the Mg metal enclosure, including the back case, was critical. This made good antenna design for NFC a trade-off in our development process.
