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Originally Posted by John F
I see you have a smart phone. Why not use that to scan the bar code and add it to a wishlist, I'm sure there are apps that do that (I use one on my iPhone).
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The value in NFC over a smartphone w/ camera, is that on my smartphone to use the scanner/barcode, I need to go through the following process:
- turn the screen on,
- unlock the phone,
- browse to the scanner app shortcut,
- wait for the scanner app to open,
- wait for it to initialize the camera,
- aim the camera at the barcode,
- wait for the camera to focus/adjust phone to focus on the barcode,
- wait for scanner app to download the barcode info from the interweb.
The process with the NFC (at least as it is on my phone):
- turn screen on
- tap back of phone to NFC chip.
(possibly wait for info to download from interwebs)
On my phone, the NFC automatically opens the app on my phone based on the type of NFC chip that I tap - if it is a credit card chip, it opens the Wallet app; if it is another smartphone w/ NFC it opens the sharing app to transfer information; if it is the NFC chip that is programmed to be by my bedside, then the program that sets my phone to night mode etc.
At any rate, the NFC chip in a nook/reader is cheaper, easier to use, and less work than a camera, and that is probably why B&N is working on that implementation.