Author: Andreas Jakl

This complete step-by-step tutorial demonstrates how you can select a contact from your address book, customize it to contain the info you’d like to share, pin it to a live tile for instant sharing to another device and activating the live tile. Of course, you can also share a contact directly from the built-in address… Continue reading How to Share a Contact via NFC from a Live Tile

As Nokia Developer will be closing down its Nokia Developer Projects hosting service soon, we have moved the projects to GitHub to keep the Qt- and Java ME-based open source example apps available to the community. You can find the new project repositories here: NFC interactor for Symbian / MeeGo Harmattan (Qt) NFC chat (Qt)… Continue reading NFC Example Apps Moved To GitHub

The initial release of NFC interactor 5 had issues with start-up that affected the free trial version. Thanks to our users for reporting the bug, we could immediately develop a fix. The new version 5.0.1 is now live in the store. Please update your installation of NFC interactor in case you experienced issues with the… Continue reading Trial Mode Fixed – Update 5.0.1

There is an issue with the initial release of NFC interactor 5 in trial mode. We’ve temporarily unpublished the app – but the fix is already in QA and the app will be back online as soon as possible! Paid versions of NFC interactor are not affected by the issue.

We’re proud to announce the next major update of NFC interactor: the user experience release! After adding countless new features with the 6 updates that we released during the past 9 months (of course all free for our paid users), it was time to concentrate on the usability and reach of the app. Some statistics… Continue reading NFC interactor 5 – The User Experience Release

Most NFC apps will simply write the so-called “Empty NDEF Record” to the tag when you choose to delete the tag. This writes the smallest possible standardized contents to the tag (only 3 bytes), and essentially makes the previous tag contents invisible as it tells the reader that the tag doesn’t have any further contents… Continue reading How to Erase NFC Tags

Since handing in the recent NFC interactor 4 release to the Quality Assurance process, we’ve been working hard on the next upcoming release of the app – unsurprisingly called NFC interactor 5. Most previous releases have concentrated on adding NFC features; the next one will extend the scope of the app and significantly improve the… Continue reading Looking for NFC interactor Beta Testers

The latest update of NFC interactor 4 for Windows Phone 8 is the entertainment release, and adds exciting features that will help you to use NFC while you’re on the go. This includes playing and sharing music through Spotify and Nokia Music, as well as launching the car app on Nokia Lumia devices. As NFC… Continue reading NFC interactor 4: Entertainment, Cars and Professionals

Starting today, you can download the free upgrade to Nfc Interactor 3.0 – it adds the most requested feature from our users, which was also the most complex to implement: full business card support & address book integration! Nfc Interactor is now the only app in the Store with full integration / support of: Create… Continue reading Full Business Card Support in Nfc Interactor 3.0

One of the most well-known and traditional NFC conferences – WIMA NFC – took place in Monaco for the 7th time from 10. – 12. April 2013. Nokia was once again present as a sponsor with their own stand, and was showcasing several NFC apps on Windows Phone. One of those was NearSpeak, which is… Continue reading NearSpeak showcased by Nokia at WIMA NFC in Monaco