Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Youngil Nam

Seungjae Lee

Sungjun Kim

Wonho Lee

Geonwoo Kim

Sangyoun Lee

Sungjae Cho

Choonghoon Kim

Junkyoung Shin

Kyuhui Han

An electronic device according to various embodiments may include: a housing; a communication module comprising circuitry coupled to at least one surface of the housing configured to be connected to an external device including multiple near field communication (NFC) antennas; and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to: obtain device information of the external device from the external device based on the external device being coupled; generate antenna setting information for setting the multiple NFC antennas of the external device based on at least one of the device information of the external device and device information of the electronic device; and control the electronic device to transmit the generated antenna setting information to control the setting of the multiple NFC antennas.

External device including at least one antenna, and electronic device and method for improving antenna performance using same

Various embodiments include an electronic device and method for near field communications. An electronic device comprises a memory, a first communication circuit, a second communication circuit, and at least one processor operatively connected with the memory, the first communication circuit, or the second communication circuit, wherein the processor identifies an occurrence of a designated event for the electronic device while at least one piece of first software stored in the memory is performed, in response to the occurrence of the designated event, receives update software for the at least one piece of first software from an external device through the second communication circuit, and updates the at least one piece of first software using the received update software, and wherein the first communication circuit operates in a first mode before the at least one piece of first software is updated and transitions into a second mode.

Method and apparatus for multimodal operation of near field communications circuitry

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