Author: Andreas Jakl

During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we got the opportunity to shoot a video showcasing NearSpeak! You’ll see the app demonstrated on two Lumia 920, including the live translation of the recorded voice message to the current user’s phone language! In addition, the popular Windows Phone website Windows Phone Central wrote a nice article… Continue reading NearSpeak on YouTube and WPCentral

After NearSpeak won at the DemoCamp at Mobile World Congress 2013, the WIP Connector blog and newsletter now feature a short interview about the app and how it was created. Highly recommended to read if you’d like to get a bit more background information about NearSpeak!

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the jury just selected NearSpeak as the overall winner at the WIPJam DemoCamp! NearSpeak previously won at the LumiaGeek 8-Week Challenge and was therefore invited to an app pitch at the WIPJam DemoCamp. 15 different app developers had the chance to show the best in intense 2-minute pitches,… Continue reading NearSpeak Wins at WIPJam DemoCamp / MWC

The popular NFCsms app has just received its first update. NFCsms extends Windows Phone and connects NFC tags & web sites that contain SMS links to the messaging app. Without NFCsms installed, the phone would not know how to handle SMS links. Once the NFCsms app is installed, you will immediately be redirected to the… Continue reading NFCsms 1.1: Extended URL Support

NearSpeak – just updated to v2.0 – has been selected as one of the winning apps in the Lumia Geek 8-Week Challenge. Thanks to this contest, we will now have the opportunity to showcase the app at the Mobile World Congress in Bacelona next week! To read a short interview, along with some more information… Continue reading What does it take to win the Lumia Geek 8-Week Challenge?

The major update to NearSpeak 2.0 adds an incredibly useful new feature: Multi-Language Tags! Imagine an art exhibition: next to each painting, there is an NFC tag. As a visitor, you just tap the tag with your phone, and you will immediately hear the story behind the painting in your native language! Creating Multi-Language Voice… Continue reading Multi-Language NFC Tags Speak Your User’s Language

The new 2.0.0.1 update of Nfc Interactor for Windows Phone 8 fixes a small issue related to resuming the app from tombstoning when certain information was visible on the info page. The update is ready for download in the WP Store!

Several of the new features in Nfc Interactor 2.0 have been requested by our users – thanks a lot for your feedback! In addition, we added a lot of possibilities for professional users. A quick overview of what’s new: Easier App Launching: Store Search for 3rd Party Apps The most requested improvement was to make… Continue reading Nfc Interactor 2.0 – App Search and Professional Features

The video recording of the recent “Lumia App Labs #8: Developing NFC Apps in Windows Phone 8“-webinar is now online at Youtube! In the webinar, you will see how to use the Proximity APIs in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps to implement several important use cases. These include sharing captured photos, URLs, your… Continue reading NFC Webinar Recording on YouTube

After the first session of the “Lumia App Labs #8: Developing NFC Apps in Windows Phone 8” that I presented for Nokia Developer today, you can now download the two open source examples that I created for this session: NFC Rock Paper Scissors – Finished Example App Demonstrates the PeerFinder API to easily and quickly… Continue reading New NFC Example Apps + Webinar Slides