BlackBerry Tag delivers tap to share super powers

BlackBerry may have future-proofed its latest flurry of BlackBerry smarties with NFC chips – including the Bold 9900 – but it appears RIM has more than just mobile payments in mind. Announced today at GITEX in Dubai, BlackBerry Tag – its new social sharing feature – will make use of these NFC chips to take trading and sharing to the next level.

RIM’s NFC-sharing Tag feature will be rolled out to users in the BlackBerry OS 7 update. It works by simply tapping two Tag-enabled phones together. The idea is BlackBerry users will be able to seamlessly swap multimedia, contacts and BBM info, in addition to sharing URLs and documents across handsets. Remember the Bump app? It’s a bit like that. Move over Bluetooth.

RIM is also encouraging developers to hop onboard the Tag-ing action by incorporating its new feature into their own applications through APIs.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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