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Re:Google Wallet by theBobMcCormick on Thursday May 26, 2011 @04:03PM (#2589209)
This is more than just a simple app install. The phone has to actually have an NFC radio, antenna, etc. inside for it to work. It's kind of a chicken and egg problem. No handsets (except the Nexus S) have NFC hardware because currently there's nothing your users can do with the NFC hardware. Now there is, so hopefully more handsets will start coming with NFC.
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Re:Google Wallet by djackson on Thursday May 26, 2011 @05:18PM (#2589482)
Actually, a lot of phones have NFC technology in them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication#NFC-en...

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Re:Google Wallet by theBobMcCormick on Friday May 27, 2011 @12:00PM (#2591901)
I believe the only ones of those that are Android are the Nexus S and the Galaxy S II (which apparently only offers it on some models, not others).
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