An incremental Android update adds APIs for writing tags as well as reading them. The update also adds a notification system for interested applications, but no access to the secure elements just yet. Android version 2.3, Gingerbread, brought the ability to read NFC tags and some hidden APIs to write them. With version 2.3.3 …

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Thursday 10th February 2011 13:18 GMT Code Monkey

3 Rs

Reading, writing and spelling

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Thursday 10th February 2011 13:43 GMT Martin

reading, wrighting and reckoning?

Citation needed.

Or is this meant to be a joke?

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1. Thursday 10th February 2011 13:46 GMT Sarah Bee
  
  Re: reading, wrighting and reckoning?
  
  There is a citation. Is that meant to be a joke?
  
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Thursday 10th February 2011 13:46 GMT dotdavid

Half-baked

Does anyone else get the impression that Gingerbread is a bit... half baked. It was rushed out of the door for the Nexus S announcement, and since then has been unavailable anywhere else and subject to a constant stream of minor patches which haven't just been bug fixes but entire new APIs.

Pint icon because it seems Google's team was a bit quick to leave the office and head to the pub for some final build drinks.

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1. Thursday 10th February 2011 14:19 GMT Code Monkey
  
  Gingerbread is half baked
  
  [applauds]
  
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2. Thursday 10th February 2011 14:26 GMT Gerhard Mack
  
  no
  
  I'm running Gingerbread on my Geeksphone One and it seems to lack a lot of the minor glitches that existed on Froyo. It is also a massive improvement in battery life.
  
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Thursday 10th February 2011 13:48 GMT Anon

NFC

NFC: I can't help but read that as an emphatic suggestion of a low probability.

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Thursday 10th February 2011 13:48 GMT Loyal Commenter

I was always taught

...that the three 'R's were Reading, wRiting, and 'Rithmetic.

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1. Thursday 10th February 2011 16:49 GMT Guus Leeuw
  
  Re: I was always taught
  
  the continuous teaching paid of.
  
  <Mr Burns>Excellent</Mr Burns>
  
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