Samsung Galaxy S II (I9100)
Sonntag, 11 September 2011
Samsung’s newest flag-ship phone, the Samsung Galaxy SII, was announced at MWC 2011. This time the phone also contains NFC hardware for reading/writing tags as well as for card emulation as well. Unlike most of the other handset manufactures that ship only one hardware version of the phone, Samsung has to different hardware platforms: one with NFC and one without. Whereas in Europe most of the phone come without NFC (which cannot be enabled thru a Software update, as the required Chip is missing), the Korean version has already NFC. The phone runs Google’s Android with the Version 2.3.4 and later has therefore offers the same API for NFC developer as on the Nexus S. Details on the card emulation functionality are not released yet.
