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Originally Posted by damaltor View Post
NFC can transmit arbitrary data, too (which is done on bt pairing, as the two devices exchage a bluetooth passkey).

As the data rate is (relatively) slow, there is no sense in transmittig big amounts of data (like directly sharing an image via nfc).

but as a keyboard has to send a minimal amount of data, nfc is fast enough. there is no standard for this though, there will be a special driver needed, which is polling nfc and emulates the keypresses for the os.
Well, NFC is not some emulation of serial device or such, so "transmit arbitrary data" is slightly incorrect. Also there is a specialized NFC chip in compatible devices, which strictly follows the specification, and that specification does not support HID. Which means that keyboard/drivers in quesion should follow the same specification, i.e. RFID tag reading/writing and HID emulation.

You are most probably right that keyboard emulation is done by polling, can't imagine how that would affect battery life.
 

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