iPhone 4 NFC DIY hack

Do desperately need to have NFC available with your iPhone 4? If your answer is yes, here is how to get it but keep in mind it is not for everybody. NFC stands for Near Field Communication and it’s main purpose is processing financial transactions by moving your iPhone near an NFC payment terminal. With this technology you wont need to bother yourself with pin numbers and other trivialities, just move your iPhone close to the terminal and your payment will be processed in a second without you needing to do anything else. NFC will most probably be a standard part of the next iPhone model, the iPhone 5.


At the time being, NFC is available only on a small number of Android devices, but with this hack you’ll be able to do the same with your beloved iPhone 4. For this to work you will need to have a credit card which supports the latest NFC technology. When you get the NFC credit card remove the iPhone 4 back cover, insert the credit card on the battery and afterwards carefully put the cover back on your iPhone.
Thats all, you can pay your StarBucks coffee with your NFC enabled iPhone 4. The glass back of your iPhone doesn’t block the NFC communications at all.


But really this hack isn’t something essential as there are not enough NFC terminals around to make it really useful. Could this damage the iPhone 4? We don’t think so. But any way you can show your friends which proud themselves that Android is better because of NFC that they aren’t completely right. It is as good a reason to hack your iPhone as there is. Anyway do let us know if you try this out.

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