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#149
Originally Posted by misterc View Post
NFC makes sense to allow the phone / OS to detect which back cover is being applied & change the theme accordingly.
would also with a stretch of the imagination allow to connect a hardware keyboard instead of a back cover.

Originally Posted by Fuzzillogic View Post
That would be a very expensive solution for such simple use. If you'd use NFC for that, you can't use that NFC-antenna (and probably chip) for any other NFC-use anymore, as there always will be an NFC-tag interfering with it. The one in the cover.
Well, you need to refresh your knowledge about NFC tags
In reality you can detect&interact with multiple tags present at the same location. There's a binary tree search&identify scheme for tag addressing that takes care of the low level data transfer.

What this means; having one tag permanently attached to your phone does not in any way interfere using other tags. It's all just how you implement the uppermost SW layer.
 

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