Comments on: Getting started with NFC on the phone and in the home http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/getting-started-with-nfc-on-the-phone-and-in-the-home/ Sun, 19 May 2013 19:32:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter John http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/getting-started-with-nfc-on-the-phone-and-in-the-home/#comment-1222483 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:32:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588487#comment-1222483 You can also sideload flash on Android. APK can be found on adobe’s site – http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html

Latest android build – http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/archive/android/11.1.115.27/install_flash_player_ics.apk

]]> By: Bulamonto http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/getting-started-with-nfc-on-the-phone-and-in-the-home/#comment-1221746 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:48:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588487#comment-1221746 Kevin, I enjoyed your article. There are numerous other applications for NFC tags and cell phones. I think that there are huge opportunities in consumer-based advertising using RFID technology. This is a wide-open field that transforms consumer products into personalized trophies. In this process, customers interact with RFID-tagged products. Using cell phones, they individualize items by writing links to personal memories, music, photos, and videos directly onto consumer products. At a latter point in time, they are able to instantly recall, display, and share their experiences through NFC interactions. Since the information resides on their cell phone, the customer is able to broadcast their consumer reviews, opinions, and stories to the global community via email, SMS, and social networks such as Twitter, Foursquare, and Facebook. In response, companies reward consumers who are efficient in sharing their experiences with free coupons, food, drinks, and music. Look for NFC consumer-based advertising products in the near future. The following is a video I made two years ago that shows how RFID tags and NFC cell phones can be used to record and share consumer experiences (RFID fishing, travel, and dining) from a personalized Christmas wreath: http://bit.ly/eruQRN.

]]> By: Bulamonto http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/getting-started-with-nfc-on-the-phone-and-in-the-home/#comment-1221648 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:14:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588487#comment-1221648 I’ve reused and personalized hotel keys in Tokyo to share my videos on The Internet of Experiences. The following is a video I made two years ago that shows how RFID and NFC cell phones can be used to transform and personalize consumer products: http://bit.ly/fJ7FuV.

]]> By: Deen O. http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/getting-started-with-nfc-on-the-phone-and-in-the-home/#comment-1220618 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:30:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588487#comment-1220618 Any Tag has the same functions, plus it FREE!!

]]> By: Sandeep Singh Thukral http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/getting-started-with-nfc-on-the-phone-and-in-the-home/#comment-1220399 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:38:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588487#comment-1220399 Kevin, I use a combination of software (Tasker style and NFC). Each can do a good job that the other one can not.
For tasks that are time-based or another action-based, I use a free app Automatelt (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=AutomateIt.mainPackage&hl=en) that does some amazing things. Like launch the train app at specific times of the day. Or reset the music and call volumes every time the headphones are connected (Android does not differentiate between call/music volumes on speaker and that on the headphones, like I remember Apple iPod used to do).

For changing multiple phone settings at specific locations (and at an unpredictable time) without bleeding the battery dry, the NFC chips are the best solution I can think of.

For those buying the chips in Europe, I orders mine from RapidNFC. I bought the NTAG type chips (NTAG203)

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/getting-started-with-nfc-on-the-phone-and-in-the-home/#comment-1218094 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:27:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588487#comment-1218094 Glad to help, Andi! That’s one of the attractive bits around Android – you can often access much of the system functionality as needed. Not saying it’s better than iOS, but it’s certainly different out of the box in that respect.

]]> By: Andi Piftor http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/getting-started-with-nfc-on-the-phone-and-in-the-home/#comment-1218091 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:26:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588487#comment-1218091 Hey Kevin, thanks a lot for the video. I had no clue you can do all this stuff with a Samsung Galaxy. As an iPhone owner who is seriously considering an Android as his next phone, this helps a lot. Cheers, Andi

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/getting-started-with-nfc-on-the-phone-and-in-the-home/#comment-1218002 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:49:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588487#comment-1218002 Stephen, I’m watching the video now on the Chromebook, so that should work. ChromeOS supports Flash. As far as the Galaxy Note 2, that is an issue and it has to do with our content provider. I actually embed HTML5 code for the video, but if the provider sees Android as the client, it assumes Flash and delivers it so. Obviously, that’s not good since Android has moved away from Flash of late and we’re looking at how to resolve. I apologize.

In the meantime, you can catch the video here; we upload ‘em all to our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIG4PvMAXmU

]]> By: Stephen Scanlon http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/getting-started-with-nfc-on-the-phone-and-in-the-home/#comment-1217846 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:30:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588487#comment-1217846 Kevin,
Was so disappointed in not being able to view the video. My chromebook and note2 will not play flash videos. Since these are also your tools of choice, I’m surprised you didn,t notice it.

]]> By: nfcphones http://gigaom.com/2012/11/27/getting-started-with-nfc-on-the-phone-and-in-the-home/#comment-1215834 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:35:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=588487#comment-1215834 “the NFC tags and software I started to use seem limited to Samsung phones and there appear to various tag standards”
Samsung Tectiles are Mifare Classic type nfc tags. Your phone needs an NXP nfc controller chip to support this type. More and more phones will have controller chips from other suppliers. (Windows 8 phones only support NDEF formatted mifare tags.) Avoid classic type, buy the better NTAG type. No, I don’t sell them ;-) .
For much more info about nfc tags.

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