Why this is important: Contact sharing between phones is such a basic function, yet one that still involves typing numbers, scanning codes, or manually saving info. With this feature, Google could ...

Quickly swapping contact details feels like a problem that modern-day tech should've solved by now—and indeed it has, though it's not always obvious how to go about sending someone your information.

Google is developing an iOS’ NameDrop-like feature for Android, internally referred to as “Gesture Exchange” and “Contact Exchange.” The functionality uses a gesture and is likely driven by NFC to ...

Google is developing a new feature called Contact Exchange, essentially an Android version of Apple’s NameDrop. Discovered in a recent Google Play Services teardown, the feature uses NFC to quickly ...

There are loads of ways of sharing files between devices. You can attach them to emails or messages, upload them to cloud storage and send a link, or even store them on USB drives if you want to get ...