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223 points nikodunk | 2 comments | 14 Oct 24 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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rendaw ◴[14 Oct 24 17:50 UTC] No.41839942[source]▶
It says "Wired/Wireless and NFC combo" under battery charging, but there's no mention of NFC under "Connectivity". Is it charging only? I'd like a linux phone but the Purism phone eschewed NFC too.
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GranPC ◴[14 Oct 24 17:53 UTC] No.41839978[source]▶
There's NFC, although the Linux stack support for NFC is a little limiting. However the NFC hardware is passed through to the Android container, so if, for example, your bank doesn't demand that you pass SafetyNet, you can pay with the phone. (I have done this)
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1. rendaw ◴[15 Oct 24 15:36 UTC] No.41849671[source]▶
I've used nfc on linux with several readers via pcsc-lite and it seemed to work fine. Do you mean support for the nfc chipsets used on phones? Does the android container deal with that differently somehow?
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2. heavyset_go ◴[15 Oct 24 18:58 UTC] No.41851923[source]▶
libnfc has different forks for different hardware and the main lib hasn't been updated in a while. It was a chore to get NFC over I2C working for me.