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sidbaxter

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  1. Just got a Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Verizon, and, while doing great service as my sole geocaching device, it has another capability that may be worth exploring. NFC (Near Field Communication) is, as is my very rough understanding, the phone's ability to interact with tiny, programmable tags (chips, actually.) They cost about a dollar apiece, and range in size from that of a dime to a half-dollar. Some are built for use outdoors. Here's an example: Write/program a tag, stick it on the cell-phone mount in your car, and every time you place your phone there it will turn on the speakerphone or turn off wi-fi, or whatever else you program the tag to initiate. Only a few mobile devices currently available are capable of using the technology, but it seems that many more in the future will use it. Wondering if there isn't some application for geocaching here, i.e. an NFC tag stuck to the cache container's lid which, when a compatible device were held near it, would automatically log your visit. It could potentially also confirm (or discredit) your claim to actually having found the cache, serving as irrefutable proof. Please bear in mind that my understanding of this technology is feeble at best; it would appear, however, to offer the geocaching community something useful. Anyone with more knowledge on the subject care to ring in? -Note: If this topic is already being discussed elsewhere in the forums, I apologize. The site search engine requires the use of words four letters in length or longer, so my searches for "NFC tag" produced no results.
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