How to activate NFC on BlackBerry KEYone

The NFC is a fairly new and useful technology. This technology is progressively used on Android mobile phones including the BlackBerry KEYone. Due to the NFC it will be easy to do a lot of things in many fields of activity. So we decided to write this article to rough the subject of the NFC and show you how to activate it on your BlackBerry KEYone. We will first discover what the NFC is for. We will see in a second time how to activate the NFC on your BlackBerry KEYone. Finally, we will teach you how to use it in different situations.

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What’s the NFC function on your BlackBerry KEYone

The NFC that stands for Near Field Communication is in fact a wireless transfer technology. With NFC you may exchange information as well as files between 2 devices. The peculiarity of this wireless technology is that it has a range of just a few centimeters. It will be necessary that the device with which you use the NFC is very close to your BlackBerry KEYone so that it works. So, the NFC will allow your BlackBerry KEYone to be able to exchange files, to connect to another device or to pay without contact. There are many ways to use the NFC of your BlackBerry KEYone.

How you can activate the NFC of your BlackBerry KEYone

To be able to use the NFC on your BlackBerry KEYone, it can be necessary that this setting is enabled on the cellphone. To activate the NFC on your BlackBerry KEYone, you must go to the Settings menu of the BlackBerry KEYone. Then go to PLUS or ADVANCED PARAMETERS and finally click on NFC. You may then activate or deactivate the NFC of your BlackBerry KEYone. If you’d like to save a little battery, we advise you to activate the NFC only when you use it and to deactivate it the rest of the time.

How you can use the NFC with your BlackBerry KEYone

Exchange files with NFC

If you’d like to exchange files between your BlackBerry KEYone and another cellphone, you can use the NFC. For this you need to activate the NFC and you should also activate Android Bean. To accomplish this, go to Settings> More> NFC> Android Beam . Once done, simply bring the 2 mobile phones closer and choose NFC as an option to share your file.

Pay with the NFC of your BlackBerry KEYone

For now Banks are not yet too developed on the payment NFC. To be able to pay with the NFC of your BlackBerry KEYone, you must do 2 things. The 1st is to have an app compatible with your bank. The second is to configure his credit card or his account in this app.

Connect to a device

If you wish to pair a device to your BlackBerry KEYone, it could be easier to do it with the NFC. So, it is often enough to activate the NFC BlackBerry KEYone and stick the mobile phone to the device to generate the association. This is for example the truth with some bluetooth headsets.