Before you can use Android Beam on your phone, you'll need to enable the feature in your settings menu. Once it's enabled, you can use Android Beam by simply holding your phone against another phone ...

Android Beam, which uses NFC connections to send information between Android smartphones, will be dropped from Android Q, but Google is already preparing its replacement in a feature named Fast Share.

Android Beam is a device-to-device data transfer tool that uses near-field communication (NFC) and Bluetooth to send photos, videos, contact information, links to webpages, navigation directions, ...

A data transfer function added to Android phones starting with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Using near field communication (NFC), Android Beam lets users copy data from one Android device to ...

There are technologies that, at first blush, seem to be the best thing since sliced bread. After years of use, or non-use rather, they turn out to be not so useful after all. One such thing is the NFC ...

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Android Beam will effectively cease to exist with the introduction of Android Q, according to comments reportedly made by developers on the firmware update at Google I/O 2019. For now, there also ...