Demonstration of setting up and using NFC tags on a Nokia Lumia 920 running Windows Phone 8 using the "Nokia Writer Supplies" purchased from Amazon.com

1. NFC TAGS WITH
WINDOWS PHONE 8
A DEMONSTRATION OF SETTING UP AND USING NFC TAGS
BRIAN GROTH
HTTP://WWW.BRIANGROTH.COM
JUNE 2013

2. I own a Nokia Lumia 920, which is what I used for this demo
I bought some NFC tags from Amazon.com called “Nokia Writer Supplies”
I put one on the bottom
of my coffee cup

3. What I want to do is set up my new NFC tags so my
phone does something when I tap the phone to the
NFC tag.
To do that, use the Nokia NFC Writer application

4. Select Compose to create the new action when you tap
this particular NFC tag with your phone

5. Then select the action to have happen when I tap this
NFC specific tag that’s now on my coffee cup.
In my case, the action I want is to post a tweet.
Of course, there are a variety of actions that can be
taken when someone taps their phone to an NFC
tag, but this is what I’m choosing for this particular tag.

6. This step will be unique to whatever action you’ve
selected for your NFC tag
For the “post a tweet” action, this is where I can put in
some default text for when I tap my phone to this NFC
tag

7. The final step is to
associate the
action to the tag,
so simply tap the
phone to the tag.
When the phone
completes the new
association, it tells
me with the “write
complete”
message

8. Assume some time has passed and I’ve walked up to my
desk

9. When I tap my
phone to my NFC
tag, it asks me if I
want to open
twitter.com

10. When I click to
Accept the action of
opening
Twitter.com, it brings
me to the web page
with my default text
already filled out
When I press the
Tweet button, it
shares the message

11. Contact me via
Twitter at
@BrianGroth if you
have any questions