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The launch of our NFC by MOO App
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You may remember, at the end of last year we began a limited trial run of NFC Business Cards. Anybody who purchased a pack of Business Cards from us would get a complimentary NFC enabled Business Card with a preview of your cards pre-written to it. These have proved to be extremely popular with you as a peek into our future, and as a way to get your minds whirring about the possibilities of Business Cards, technology and what a “third side” of a card could be.
While a full production version of NFC Business Cards from MOO are a little way away, we have been working hard on something to support both our existing and future NFC cards – an NFC by MOO App.
The App, currently available for free on Android, is designed to allow you to take the next step with your cards – rewriting them with all kinds of exciting data to stretch the limits of what your card can do. Write a map to your location? No problem! Link to your Facebook or Flavors.me pages? Done! The NFC by MOO App makes it easy to take the card you received from us, and make it work, for you!
There are already lots of NFC writing Apps on the market – some good, some not so much. What we wanted was to make an App that was better, more user friendly, and targeted towards what you may want to use an NFC Business Card for. With that in mind, the only solution was to build one ourselves! We hope you’ll enjoy using it. If you have any questions, please leave a comment below and we’ll be happy to get back to you.
Download it here and if you like it leave a review, we appreciate your input.
Hello Rob. Thanks for your comment. We are working on this and this will be in a future version of the app.
Windows Phone supports NFC… Pleeease look into making a Windows Phone app for my Nokia Lumia. Thanks :)
For those commenting about an iPhone App. The iPhone does not have NFC technology so there is not much use for an NFC app until Apple builds NFC into their phones. I am assuming the iPhone 6 will have NFC as it was rumored for iPhone 5 or f they have an iPhone 5n which would have NFC. Something tells me Apple needs to corner the market someone on distribution of which MFC tech they will be using first with corporate acquisitions.
I am currently in the market to buy business cards, and recently stumbled upon this awesome website. I’m in the tech industry though, and I only want to buy business cards if I can have NFC in them. Is there any estimated timeline when Moo will make NFC cards an available option?
Also, to everyone asking for a Moo NFC app on iPhone – that would be pointless at this point because Apple products do not support NFC. I would however, like to request a Moo NFC app for Windows Phone. :)
Can’t wait for MOO biz cards with NFC; in the meantime found another brand of NFC chips. Will try the MOO app with them! I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 which has NFC capability. FUN!!! I’m waiting to all the creative ways this technology will be used.
For those people looking for a Windows Phone App, I am sorry to hear there isn’t a Moo app in development, but you can use the Nokia NFC Writer app. I am still waiting for my cards to arrive, so I can’t verify that it will work, but it should work with any writable NFC tags.
Hi Trevor,
Really glad you stumbled upon us (always great to hear!), We don’t currently have a release date for NFC cards at the moment as we are still trialling the technology within the cards.
As soon as we know more information, we’ll let you know. You can also keep in the look here
Thanks.
Would love to see the app for the new B&B 10 platform
Received my first patch of cards and was not able to get my NFC to work on my Galaxy 3. Possibly because it was at the earlier phase but excited when it does take off. Anxiously awaiting..BTW, my business cards look great and I’m ordering more now. I like to see if they can actually come up with actual round cards vs. round corners.
Hi Moo, I received the NFC card sample, but it’s very frustrating that nothing happens when put it close to the back of my Galaxy Note 2. Should I have any NFC app installed or enable the NFC reader on settings? I can’t find the way. Please let me know what I have to do in order to reader the card. Thanks!
Hello Claudia, Glad to hear you have received on of our NFC cards. Is the NFC enabled on the device?
Hi! I don’t know… I couldn’t figure out how to check if the NFC is enabled or not. How can I do that and how can I enable it if it isn’t yet?
Thxx!!
Hello Claudia, contact our customer services team on http://www.moo.com/service and they are sure to be able to help you.