Can an NFC external reader for mobile also be used as a desktop RFID reader?

Do the instructions give any indication of what to do if you do not have modern electronic gizmos? Do you remain inauthentic?

Presumably you know your .it tax code, and sounds like they'll send your PUK code with the new ID, based on those two it sounds like you have a method to activate the card without NFC?

Other than that, do you have a burning desire to read your own ID card?

ish ... not all RFID is NFC, NFC uses the 13.5 MHz version of RFID

Mobile reader could be USB or Bluetooth, if you're on Linux I'd ask carefully how compatible it is.

It's been a lomg time (~15yr) since I worked with USB smartcard readers (PC/SC) and I've never worked with the Android NFC stack, but I would assume they aren't compatible, and some brief searching seems to agree.

You can get external readers for Android phones but they're intended for a specific app like price labels or door entry or whatever. I would not assume a regular NFC-using app is going to work with them, as there doesn't appear to be a way for the Android NFC stack to use external devices.

Unless you want to buy another phone, probably your best bet is a USB reader passed through to a Windows VM running their software.

Theo

Am 30.10.25 um 17:01 schrieb Andy Burns:

You can activate it without NFC, but you don't get the magical "Level 3" which the one you need to do just about everything, such as booking an appointment, applying for a new document, etc.

See above.

Given your current phone has VoLTE issues with spusu and doesn't have NFC, I'd say an upgrade would kill two birds with one stone.

I probably will, but my Huawei has a non-Google app that allows me to record all incoming and outgoing calls and this functionality has been removed on plain-vanilla Android.