The Murata Magicstrap is a very small NFC tag and therefore requires special care to be read. By special care I mean that the NFC-enabled smartphone will be able to read the tag, but only after you find the “sweet spot” where the tag is excited. This may lead to a poor user experience so we typically design a custom antenna to work with the NFC Patch Kit for these applications. With a custom antenna you’re still only able to get contact reads, just without the need to search for the “sweet spot”. By contact reads, I mean than the read distance is 0in. The best experience we’ve had with reading the Magicstrap has been with the Nexus 7 V2 (2013).
