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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.
This is awesome. I do hope to see a Windows Phone version of this app soon. :)
Will you be developing an app for iPhone and when?
This is awesome, I can’t wait to be able to order NFC business cards!
I put a QR code on my cards and remember thinking how I wished it was NFC instead. So good job add that to your products. However I wish there was a NFC enabled card case. This way I could share my info when via NFC when I can and just normal cards when I can’t
This is such cool work. Can hardly wait for NFC cards to be available for order, and for an iPhone app!
Will you be developing an iPhone app?
I don’t have any of the NFC cards yet, but I’ve grabbed the app. Looks great! Can’t wait for the NFC cards to come out – my last order of cards is running low! :)
Waiting for a Windows Phone app :)
Bonjour, je ne trouve pas NFC by MOO sur Google Play à partir de mon smartphone !!! Avec mon PC, oui je trouve, mais pas avec mon smartphone…
Love it! Found the app in the Google play store and installed it to my phone. Now I don’t have any MOO NFC cards (hint hint) so I used it with some TecTiles that I had. Works great, writes to them and reads to them quite easily. The app is easy to use and the interface is easy to understand. Now if only I had some NFC by MOO cards…
OK. So this is a blog post to tell us about an app that will allow us to use a product you don’t yet sell? I will probably be thrilled about this when we can actually order the cards, but until then it’s useless.
And why only Android, you don’t believe there are a few iPhone users on you customer list?
I just downloaded the app and now can’t do anything with it because I don’t have a card. Doesn’t appear the app will allow me to do anything without the NFC by Moo card. Can you send me a beta card?
When will the NFC cards be available?
I was wondering will it be available for the iPhones too?
It would be a great thing for me to show people a mini portfolio on the go.
The app is fantastic, now I need a card. What do I need to do to get one?
Windows Phone 8 app please.
Хороший подарок подруге – какой он?
+1 Dustin
Need Windows phone 8 (and 7.8) apps !!!
Hi,
NFC at this moment in time will unfortunately not work with Apple devices as they don’t support it.
However, you could always look at using QR codes in the meantime. You can find more information about these here.
We are crossing our fingers that Apple will start enabling NFC in their future devices.
Thanks.
Thanks very much for the feedback on the app. We’re really glad you liked it.
Hi Andrew,
Thank you for the great feedback about our app. We’re currently have our MOO Team working on the cards, but you can sign up here to be kept up to date on all the news.
Thanks
Hi Chris,
The MOO team are currently working on the development of the cards at the moment, as we want to make sure they are perfect for when they launch. When we first announced NFC, we sent out a trial card with each order placed (around 150,000 NFC cards).
The NFC by MOO app is currently only available on Android as Apple devices do not support NFC technology at the moment. We’re crossing our fingers that they will enable this in future devices. In the meantime you could always look at using QR codes, which you can find out more about here
If you have any other questions, please feel free to let us know.
Thanks,
Jamie
The app looks great, now it would be great if I could actually get my hands on some of the cards to play with. I also took note of some reviewers comments on the ability to lock cards, It does seem that this could be beneficial. Would be great if you could host a competition to see who has the most creative ideas for using these cards to win the first batch of beta cards?
Apple devices do support NFC with the aid of third party hardware ie flojack
Why are you discounting Apple at this point?
An iPAD version would be good too!
Would LOVE to see a Windows Phone version of this app. My Nokia 920 supports NFC… :)
Excuse my ignorance : What is “NFC” ? Why doesn’t Apple support it for iPhone ?
I have recently ordered 2 lots of (mini) cards from Moo but definitely didn’t receive the free NFC card; why not ?
I was so excited by this and am gutted that Apple aren’t supporting it. What a pain!
Echo the sentiment of others here – please bring an iPhone/iOS app to the table! Has the potential to be massive, particularly because business phone users have adopted the iPhone/ipad en-masse! I’m thinking similar to Bump, albeit far more frie dot! Appreciate iPhone doesnt have true NFC capabilities, but nonetheless it’s an untapped market you could monopolise!
I have the Asu TF 101 transformer with a USB NFC Reader/Writer attached but google play says I can’t install the app as my device isn’t supported :(
Is there any way to force a download & install as I can presently read & write rfid tags on the TF101 using a different app.
Thanks
Bad news for designers :)
Jamie, you didn’t mention anything about a windows phone app. How is the development for that coming along?
I am so mad at myself for not getting a card when I got the original announcement! I can’t wait for them to officially be available.
Windows phone 8 app. Pls !!
I haven’t seen any iPhone apps for it (except a very plain one in Chinese)… and I didn’t see that iPhones are NFC compatible in the Wiki entry regarding NFC. Any comments?
This sounds great, but there really aren’t too many NFC enabled phones out there just now…
Are you pointing this out to people & releasing a list of phones which are NFC enabled?
What are people going to do when they find someone (the majority) of people they want to swap details with… use a traditional card I guess.
Don’t want to sound a luddite, but the hardware is just not there for most right now. Even many top-end phones such as iPhone5 don’t have this. I have an HTC OneS & it doesn’t have it, whilst the X does.
That said, it does look like an emerging thing in 2013. Here’s a Guardian story from 2 days ago: http://preview.tinyurl.com/d829m6v
The only site I have found (& it’s a US one) that has some sort of list of such phones (updated 24/02/2013) is here: http://www.nfcworld.com/nfc-phones-list/
Yes, what were you thinking not making this for the iPhone?? Pretty please?
This sounds really awesome. NFC is the way of the future. I really hope this app finds its way onto the Windows Phone 8 platform, as I am hooked on WP8, which has excellent NFC support. I would definitely buy the app if it was made available!
Hi Gina,
The app will work if you have any type of NFC card/tags. If you are looking for a beta card, please contact http://www.moo.com/service and hopefully our team will be able to send one your way!
Hi Tony,
Hopefully iOS will be available soon *fingers crossed* then we would definitely look to do an iOS version.
Hi Neil,
NFC stands for Near Field Communication which you can find out more about it here
Unfortunately, Apple don’t support it yet, we’re hoping that in future developments they will integrate this technology in.
With regards to the NFC card, we trialled them in some packs of cards that were sent out. If you would like to contact http://www.moo.com/service they may be able to provide you with an NFC Card.
Hope that information helps.
Hi Ian,
Unfortunately, at the moment, it isn’t possible to force a download. When we submit the app, we have to submit a minimum system requirements and user permissions and one of those was that it needs to be downloaded onto an NFC enable phone.
Sorry for the inconvenience at the moment.
Hi Derek,
Currently we aren’t working on a windows app just yet, but keep your eyes peeled in the future.
Hi Stu,
Thanks you for the comment, currently there aren’t too many NFC enabled phones out there just now. We’re really excited though to be trialling this technology and seeing some of the clever things people can do at the moment.
The technology isn’t widely adopted just yet, but then you can also use QR codes on business cards to take the place while the NFC technology isn’t on every phone.
That’s a great idea about publishing a list of phones that are NFC enabled, could be very useful for people.
Thanks very much.
Hi Donna,
We’d love if we could make this app on iPhone too, but unfortunately Apple iOS isn’t compatible at this moment. We hope they change this very soon *fingers crossed*
Here is a list of all/most NFC enabled mobile devices:
http://yysource.com/2013/02/nfc-enable-mobile-devices-2013/
This is awesome. NFC is one of the reasons I went with a droid phone last year, I love using it for swapping photos and paying at the store. Was not aware of this feature until. Great stuff.
Why not iphone
Hi George. We’d love to do an iPhone app, but annoyingly Apple does not yet support NFC technology. Until they do, we’re hamstrung! But watch this space – if Apple change their mind, I’m sure you’ll see a MOO NFC App following swiftly behind it.
As fas as I can see, there is not way of locking NFC content with your App…
That pretty much renders it useless for any real-life scenario…