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Starting to see NFC Tags in public places?

I was wondering if anyone has started seeing nfc tags around town? I saw one the other night on the front door of a Turkish restaurant here in Richmond, VA. Of course I forgot my Nexus S at home and couldn't test it. But I am looking forward to using this new technology and I hope it takes off.
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none at all here in the great white north

I can't wait until the chip in my phone does more than tell me when my debit card is on the back of my phone lol
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Someday I want to use nfc to start my car, open the front door, pay for gas, etc. But being able to read a restaurants menu while waiting to be seated is a nice start.
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KeithRVA said:
Someday I want to use nfc to start my car, open the front door, pay for gas, etc. But being able to read a restaurants menu while waiting to be seated is a nice start.
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i don't think the NFC technology will do all that for limitation and security reasons
i only see it as a Marketing tool that's about it, the most it can do is do payments by hitting accept or not accept, when you have the phone next to the sensor pad

AllGamer said:
i don't think the NFC technology works that way
i only see it as a Marketing tool that's about it, the most it can do is do payments by hitting accept or not accept, when you have the phone next to the sensor pad
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That's what it is being used for now, but there is no reason it could not be used for all of the things he mentioned eventually.

KeithRVA said:
Someday I want to use nfc to start my car, open the front door, pay for gas, etc. But being able to read a restaurants menu while waiting to be seated is a nice start.
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I agree. That is definitely in the future. RFID is already used to unlock cars and has been implemented to unlock house locks as well. There would be no more significant security losses over already implemented RFID solutions.

counting i live in philadelphia "The city of brotherly love" yet i still dont see any type of nfc tags...i thought this is suppose to be a city on par with the "big apple" lol i dont even think nyc has any yet

mak213 said:
counting i live in philadelphia "The city of brotherly love" yet i still dont see any type of nfc tags...i thought this is suppose to be a city on par with the "big apple" lol i dont even think nyc has any yet
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Haven't seen anything in nyc with nfc. Its still relatively new technology in America whereas other countries may have already adopted nfc.
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I live in the UK and all mcdonalds restaurants are supposed to be having nfc capable payment option on orders les than £15 by the summer. Haven't heard anything about the USA.
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Saw one in downtown Denver at a popular Mexican restaurant that I love. It was on the front window, next to entrance door. I didn't think much of it at 1st, until I realized what it was.

present NFC application & uses

I have been following Skyrocket development from day one, and yet I am confused about the push for NFC in current ROMs.
How is everyone using NFC with their Skyrocket at the present time? Certainly I understand the potential future uses for NFC -retail, data, ect; but what functionality does it serve anyone now?

A quick example. I have a nfc tag sitting on my nightstand. At night when I go to bed I set my phone on the tag. It automatically turns my wifi off, turns my alarm on, and turns the night mode clock on. Its really neat stuff. Paying with NFC (which we can't do yet) is only scratching the surface when it comes to this technology. If your interested more Google search it. There is tons of stuff.
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that's something I haven't thought of! cool example. Where do you get the tags? I assume you might then use a program similar to tasker with NFC support?

Funny story. Its actually a rewards tag for a gas station I frequently visit. You just scan the tag at checkout, I'm sure you've seen something like it before. I was just thinking about it one day and came to the conclusion that the tag had to be NFC. So I stuck it to my phone but the pre installed NFC app just kept force closing, so I downloaded one from the market and it worked. I can read and write to it no problem. however my wife has a similiar tag for a different store and I can read it but I cannot write to it as for blank tags just Google search "blank NFC tags".
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I never would have thought to do that, pretty cool.

What ROM?
cdshepherd - what ROM are you using that enabled the NFC on the Skyrocket?

karlgo said:
cdshepherd - what ROM are you using that enabled the NFC on the Skyrocket?
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What app are you using as well?

I was using sky ics at the time. There are a few roms that have it enabled. As for apps look at the screen shot from market. I've palyed with most of them. I haven't however purchased any blank tags. I think im gonna look into that
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Thnks cdshepherd for the news and that made me try NFC and it Worked!!!
I am using Sky ICS and i can scan my VISA card. Cool as hell!

appdroid said:
Thnks cdshepherd for the news and that made me try NFC and it Worked!!!
I am using Sky ICS and i can scan my VISA card. Cool as hell!
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No problem. It is pretty cool stuff. What does it say when you scan your visa card? Does it show your information? Lol this might be dangerous
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NO comes up as unknown and when i got tab info app it only said it was visa that's it!
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No problem. It is pretty cool stuff. What does it say when you scan your visa card? Does it show your information? Lol this might be dangerous
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I'll chime in as well I'm on Alien rom and I got my nfc tags from http://tagsfordroid.com/tags/Home.html. NFC Task Launcher is a cool fairly cheap app that lets you do quite a number of tasks from a nfc tag. If you want to write just standard nfc tags then I like NFC TagWriter by NXP.

cdshepherd said:
Funny story. Its actually a rewards tag for a gas station I frequently visit. You just scan the tag at checkout, I'm sure you've seen something like it before. I was just thinking about it one day and came to the conclusion that the tag had to be NFC. So I stuck it to my phone but the pre installed NFC app just kept force closing, so I downloaded one from the market and it worked. I can read and write to it no problem. however my wife has a similiar tag for a different store and I can read it but I cannot write to it as for blank tags just Google search "blank NFC tags".
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oh please do share the name of the gas station. i want my free nfc tag!

cdshepherd said:
A quick example. I have a nfc tag sitting on my nightstand. At night when I go to bed I set my phone on the tag. It automatically turns my wifi off, turns my alarm on, and turns the night mode clock on. Its really neat stuff. Paying with NFC (which we can't do yet) is only scratching the surface when it comes to this technology. If your interested more Google search it. There is tons of stuff.
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Dude, that is cool as hell! You've inspired me to try something like this out...

I keep meaning to build an NFC into my house lock so I can just scan my phone to open the door, never get around to it though.

Android beam is pretty cool too. If I'm looking at a webpage I just put the back of my phone and my wife's phone together wait for the prompt and touch the screen. It opens up either web page, you tube, whatever and then opens up what I was looking at
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Just started using nfc on superlite 5.1, ordered 5 blanks from ebay for around 5$ i presume, you could probably get it cheaper from the US sellers.
I'm using NFC task launcher which works great and you can combine it with Tasker.
At the moment I have a tag attached to my car dock which automatically reduces brightness to 0(so my battery wont overheat while charging) and opens the GPS.
Only got my tags yesterday and downloaded the apps so I still got a lot to learn but so far it seems really useful.
I imagine to people with an office or those who use the phone for work stuff it can be even more useful for forcing a sync or almost anything you can think of at a certain place.

Great info in this thread - I now have a tag that will toggle silent and full volume on my phone (for when I go to bed at night and wake up in the AM), using NFC Task Launcher and Tasker.
I am trying to eliminate the audio notification when my phone reads a tag, but have not found how to do this.
Anyone know if it can be done?

This sounds really cool. I have been searching to find free tags offered by vendors, but haven't had any luck. Does anyone know of a place like the gas station mentioned earlier that gives NFC tags out? yes, yes....I sound really cheap. I am.

smalis said:
Great info in this thread - I now have a tag that will toggle silent and full volume on my phone (for when I go to bed at night and wake up in the AM), using NFC Task Launcher and Tasker.
I am trying to eliminate the audio notification when my phone reads a tag, but have not found how to do this.
Anyone know if it can be done?
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At the moment there doesn't seems to be way to do it in the app itself, you'll have to contact the developer. But when I used the phone on a tag when silent mode is on there was no noise, so maybe you can use tasker to silence it right before and enable sound right after.
To the other guy just buy them, I bought 5 from ebay for 5$ and at the moment got no use for 4 of them.

NFC Vulnerability!

http://phandroid.com/2012/07/26/hac...ble/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews
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As long as you don't go around letting people touch your phone to their phone you should be fine... NFC literally needs to be right up against another.

Or just keep NFC off it you don't trust it.

This is such a farce. This is how NFC works - the radio is activated and an action is taken. The worst they could probably do is send you to a page where you *could* download something malicious if you were ignorant in what you were looking at. I can see how scanning an NFC tag could force a download depending on the URL provided but I don't believe there is any way that this action will install something without the user's knowledge. You might as well say that you can "hack" Android via the Internet because in his example, he used NFC to prompt the phone to go to a particular webpage.
You want to talk about insecure? How many people still carry around house keys?

Wear a tin-foil hat or trust technology.
Me I rather have convenience technology gives us and will offer

In other news, your wallets with all your CC info can also be stolen by a hacking technique called "pickpocket".
Jokes aside, all this means is that Google will have another patch out soon. Oh wait, too late. Already fixed in JB.

Remember Bluejacking? Nothing like sending a (harmless) "your phone has been virus infected" message to a train car full of commuters and watching all the faces. Ah, the good ol' days...

rohan32 said:
NFC literally needs to be right up against another.
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Right, when I've played with NFC, the tag has to be close enough to almost touch (with millimeters) before the phone reads the tag. And the way NFC normally works when I've used it, the phone has to be screen on, and off the lockscreen. Unless there is some way around this?

[Q] Cheap Android for Running With

I would like to get a cheap phone for just listening to music and using running apps. I do not need to use it for phone calls, sms or anything, just wifi and gps.
I was leaning towards the Nexus one, S, but am open to other things. I am in Canada, so I don't know if getting US based carrier specific phones would work or not.
I would prefer to pay less than $100
Any recommendations would be appreciated.

cderrick14 said:
I would like to get a cheap phone for just listening to music and using running apps. I do not need to use it for phone calls, sms or anything, just wifi and gps.
I was leaning towards the Nexus one, S, but am open to other things. I am in Canada, so I don't know if getting US based carrier specific phones would work or not.
I would prefer to pay less than $100
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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What's the point of caring about if it's specifically on a network? Lol your using it only for GPS and WiFi. By the way how are you gonna get the GPS to work without data?
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Gps doesn't need data to work
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joelvn said:
Gps doesn't need data to work
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What about Google maps?
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That's a good point, is GPS part of data/sim or is it part of the phone regardless of sim cards?
My primary app I use for running is run keeper which utilizes GPS. If I can't do GPS then I wouldn't bother getting a second phone. I already have a great phone, but I really want to avoid using it for running.
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GPS always works no matter if you have a sim card in your phone or not. It is not dependent of it. You can try it yourself take your sim card out of your phone and turn on Gps. You will see it works just fine. I have a galaxy tab myself and it also has Gps support even without a sim card in it.
So to answer your question; it's part of the phone regardless of using a sim card or not.
About Google maps, it will be able to show your location and even give you a route description. The only thing that won't work without a data connection is navigation.
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cderrick14 said:
I would like to get a cheap phone for just listening to music and using running apps. I do not need to use it for phone calls, sms or anything, just wifi and gps.
I was leaning towards the Nexus one, S, but am open to other things. I am in Canada, so I don't know if getting US based carrier specific phones would work or not.
I would prefer to pay less than $100
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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I say try E-Bay, and pick a seller with a good return policy.... I recently went through a couple phones, one of which was $50 and easy to repair.

joelvn said:
GPS always works no matter if you have a sim card in your phone or not. It is not dependent of it. You can try it yourself take your sim card out of your phone and turn on Gps. You will see it works just fine. I have a galaxy tab myself and it also has Gps support even without a sim card in it.
So to answer your question; it's part of the phone regardless of using a sim card or not.
About Google maps, it will be able to show your location and even give you a route description. The only thing that won't work without a data connection is navigation.
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Navigation is what I was trying to pin point lol. Though as long as your around a WiFi band or even use your current phone as a hotspot host, then any phone should be good for you! The nexus s is still kicking but if I was you I would at least aim for something with a 1ghz snapdragon processor, and 4.0 inches.
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Shryvone21 said:
Navigation is what I was trying to pin point lol. Though as long as your around a WiFi band or even use your current phone as a hotspot host, then any phone should be good for you! The nexus s is still kicking but if I was you I would at least aim for something with a 1ghz snapdragon processor, and 4.0 inches.
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I see, but for those running apps there is no need for any navigation whatsoever. They just check how much you ran and so on, and to check that a Gps connection is enough.
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joelvn said:
GPS always works no matter if you have a sim card in your phone or not. It is not dependent of it. You can try it yourself take your sim card out of your phone and turn on Gps. You will see it works just fine. I have a galaxy tab myself and it also has Gps support even without a sim card in it.
So to answer your question; it's part of the phone regardless of using a sim card or not.
About Google maps, it will be able to show your location and even give you a route description. The only thing that won't work without a data connection is navigation.
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To further explain, you can get apps like this free one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navfree.android.OSM.USA that will let you download the maps when you are connected to Wi-Fi, and then use them without a sim or carrier connectivity.. Doing this, you can turn any Android with a working GPS into a personal GPS unit. I occasionally buy them off e-bay for $20-30, install that app, and give them away to people who suck at driving...

I'm looking for something on the smallish side. I legitimately will only use it for running and listening music. Something that is easy to hold in your hand is the ideal.
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cderrick14 said:
I'm looking for something on the smallish side. I legitimately will only use it for running and listening music. Something that is easy to hold in your hand is the ideal.
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Probably an HTC one v because of the beats and I'm pretty sure you might can find it on eBay for a good price. Beats + acid= sweet love in your ears lol.
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cderrick14 said:
I'm looking for something on the smallish side. I legitimately will only use it for running and listening music. Something that is easy to hold in your hand is the ideal.
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I don't exactly know how expensive a galaxy Y is as of now.(I bought it for 100 euros a year ago) But that might just be the solution for you. It is a small phone, easy on your hands and the Gps works great.
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galaxy player

That is exactly what I am now looking for. Thank you
Shryvone21 said:
Probably an HTC one v because of the beats and I'm pretty sure you might can find it on eBay for a good price. Beats + acid= sweet love in your ears lol.
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$7 for 10 Topaz 512 NFC Tags at Tagger.ca

Credits to josephhall at RedFlagDeals. http://forums.redflagdeals.com/hot-...e-2-4-day-shipping-9-50-after-coupon-1355041/
I bought these for my Nexus 4 almost 2 weeks ago and they're great. It's cheap and delivery is fast so you can't go wrong with that so I thought I'd share this with you guys. I've used all my tags up and stuck them on my business cards.
It's much cheaper than eBay and also they ship from Canada so you don't have to wait as long.
Link: www.tagger.ca
EDIT: It's now really cheap at $7 for 10 Topaz 512 tags.

wilsonlam97 said:
Credits to josephhall at RedFlagDeals. http://forums.redflagdeals.com/hot-...e-2-4-day-shipping-9-50-after-coupon-1355041/
I bought these for my Nexus 4 almost 2 weeks ago and they're great. It's cheap and delivery is fast so you can't go wrong with that so I thought I'd share this with you guys. I've used all my tags up and stuck them on my business cards.
It's much cheaper than eBay and also they ship from Canada so you don't have to wait as long.
Link: www.tagger.ca
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The thread on RFD seems to be invalid. Is the prices we see on the site currently the sale ($10 and $17.50), or is there a coupon of some sort we can apply for more savings?
Thanks.
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Enhanced said:
The thread on RFD seems to be invalid. Is the prices we see on the site currently the sale ($10 and $17.50), or is there a coupon of some sort we can apply for more savings?
Thanks.
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Even better, it seems to be $7. I can't seem to view the RFD thread but the coupon was wootwoot. It doesn't work anymore.

wilsonlam97 said:
Even better, it seems to be $7. I can't seem to view the RFD thread but the coupon was wootwoot. It doesn't work anymore.
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Not quite better. It's 7 bucks but you now gotta pay $3 for shipping. Will probably still pick it up though.
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It's now $10 for 10 Topaz 512 tags. Not bad.
Edit: it's $7 because it's now on clearance.
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So they are just empty nfc tags? What can you do with them?
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noobletsausecakebbq said:
So they are just empty nfc tags? What can you do with them?
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Tags on AndyTags are little bit pricier, but if you want something with a cool Android logo on black background, then you might wanna check the Topaz 512 Tags (as well as NTAG203 tags) available here: http://www.andytags.com/ntag203-nfc-tags.html

hollywoodfrodo said:
Tags on AndyTags are little bit pricier, but if you want something with a cool Android logo on black background, then you might wanna check the Topaz 512 Tags (as well as NTAG203 tags) available here: http://www.andytags.com/ntag203-nfc-tags.html
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No thanks. They're a lot more expensive and look kinda tacky.
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Just bought them in soft PVC. I figured for a buck more, it would be worth the extra durability.

Bloodflame said:
Just bought them in soft PVC. I figured for a buck more, it would be worth the extra durability.
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Just to update, I received my order yesterday and they work great! Quality is impressive, and I was happy to see they use 3M adhesive.
Now, to come up with some cool ways to use them One idea I have in mind, is opening up my ultrabook and sticking one in the space beside the trackpad (doing it internally, not to affect the aesthetics of my new rig ), so I can tap my phone to initiate an ad-hoc connection to wirelessly transfer files. Not sure exactly how to execute this idea (or if it's even possible, both technically or without causing interference), but I'm going to look into it.

Bloodflame said:
Just to update, I received my order yesterday and they work great! Quality is impressive, and I was happy to see they use 3M adhesive.
Now, to come up with some cool ways to use them One idea I have in mind, is opening up my ultrabook and sticking one in the space beside the trackpad (doing it internally, not to affect the aesthetics of my new rig ), so I can tap my phone to initiate an ad-hoc connection to wirelessly transfer files. Not sure exactly how to execute this idea (or if it's even possible, both technically or without causing interference), but I'm going to look into it.
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Nice!

I always want to get some tags, but I don't have a car and always have my data connection on, so...what else could i use it for?

Procyon_82 said:
I always want to get some tags, but I don't have a car and always have my data connection on, so...what else could i use it for?
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Plenty of things to do with it. From inducting night mode when you put your phone on the night stand next to your bed, to launching apps on your phone when near. My current task is set my phone to wake up with hoovering my hand over it when I'm on my bicycle. to define 'on the bicycle' you would have to stick the tag to the bottom of the mobile pouch for bikes ...
http://www.pocketables.com/2013/03/overview-of-pocketables-tasker-articles.html
In connection to Tasker... possibilities are endless

Bloodflame said:
Just to update, I received my order yesterday and they work great! Quality is impressive, and I was happy to see they use 3M adhesive.
Now, to come up with some cool ways to use them One idea I have in mind, is opening up my ultrabook and sticking one in the space beside the trackpad (doing it internally, not to affect the aesthetics of my new rig ), so I can tap my phone to initiate an ad-hoc connection to wirelessly transfer files. Not sure exactly how to execute this idea (or if it's even possible, both technically or without causing interference), but I'm going to look into it.
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That's great to hear!
It's a neat idea to integrate a NFC tag below plastics or other non-conductive surfaces. Let us know how we can help with your project and since you do have an ultrabook the material may likely be metal. Not all metals will allow the signal to pass through so be aware of this.
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Procyon_82 said:
I always want to get some tags, but I don't have a car and always have my data connection on, so...what else could i use it for?
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Pair a bluetooth device, use it in your business cards, serve an advertisement with NFC targets, set it to call your mom, have one that texts your girlfriend that you're not available tonight, make a task that tells your wifi thermostat to turn off the A/C, set one to send a Wake On Lan command to your computer, etc... The possibilities are endless but we don't want to keep telling you that. It would be nice to see what kind of cool ideas you guys have come up with.

TaggerNFC said:
set it to call your mom.
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now why would I wanna do that lol
Question can the tags toggle? If I tap it, it'll do something, if I tap it again it'll undo what it did or do I need two tags now?

Procyon_82 said:
now why would I wanna do that lol
Question can the tags toggle? If I tap it, it'll do something, if I tap it again it'll undo what it did or do I need two tags now?
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Nope. You only need one tag. Toggling is entirely something you set up.

How is the business card idea working?
Also, something useful for me would be after touching one tag next to the door, to arm my ip camera, through the application that I have at my phone. Would this be possible?
Also, is there any site with normal round tags, with low price and shipping for European countries?
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RASTAVIPER said:
How is the business card idea working?
Also, something useful for me would be after touching one tag next to the door, to arm my ip camera, through the application that I have at my phone. Would this be possible?
Also, is there any site with normal round tags, with low price and shipping for European countries?
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It works great for me but it does cost a lot more to give out business cards with the tags on it but I think it makes a good impression. I'm not sure about the IP camera thing though. I know it can be done but I don't even know what IP camera you use.
Also what's the difference between the round tags and square tags? Is there any performance difference? I find that the square ones read a lot faster than the circle ones I've ordered on eBay. It's seems to be a bit more responsive but it may just be the difference between Tagger's quality vs. eBay. I also ordered some on AliExpress but they were complete junk.