Ok so I ordered my charging stand from ATT and it finally got here today.
Cosmetically it's great I ordered the black one and it really looks nice the first complaint though is that Nokia cheaped out on the cable (which is proprietary from what I hear) and gave me a white AC plug. However I was able to let that go since it's actually going to be hidden behind my desk.
Charging is great and I like how I can set it up right.
On the base of the unit you'll notice a small bit of print that says "NFC".The first time you sync it up with your phone it launches a built in app on the phone. It's an NFC "programming" application. Boy I was so excited however I was quickly disappointed by this app.
The issues:
1. After a long period of time the application queries your phone for all applications that you installed.... in fact every time you launch this application it does this and it takes about a minute for this process to finish if you have a lot of apps it might take longer.
2. The first app I picked was Hey DJ! I just picked one at random. Once that was done I exited the app and then NFC paired my device. The phone prompted me to accept the connection which I did then off to a blank black screen you go, and then you wait.... and wait..... and wait... Now in all fairness you do see a few of those loading dots 'wooshing by' over and over again while this is going on and it takes about 45 seconds to a minute. I thought "Ok maybe this is a glitch?" I rebooted my phone relaunched the NFC app and picked a different app... same exact results. At this rate you might as well have unlocked the phone and launched the app manually because it's much faster.
3. At this point I thought "Well Nokia can fix this later..." So I decieded I wanted to pick a different application I decided to pick Xbox Music.... nope you can't. How about the Alarm app.... nope..... Long story short you can't pick ANY app that is built in to the OS not even calculator.
4. You cant chain actions together as well. Meaning you can't NFC pair your phone have it set an alarm, and then turn the ringer off/down. It just doesn't do this...at all.
So for wireless charging it works... and if you NEED to have your phone standing instead of laying then this is the device...but for NFC it's nearly useless.
FYI I did try a free NFC app from the app store and tried a basic NFC tag and it didn't seem to work, admittedly I didn't try too hard though.
My opinion is, until WP8 has advanced NFC support there is NO reason to buy this unless:
1. MS releases better NFC functionality.
2. Developers come out with a solution.
3. Nokia (who actually can change the OS) gives us better NFC support.
I'm glad I had a gift card and didn't really spend my money on this thing. I am optimistic about better support though.
-Chris
Cosmetically it's great I ordered the black one and it really looks nice the first complaint though is that Nokia cheaped out on the cable (which is proprietary from what I hear) and gave me a white AC plug. However I was able to let that go since it's actually going to be hidden behind my desk.
Charging is great and I like how I can set it up right.
On the base of the unit you'll notice a small bit of print that says "NFC".The first time you sync it up with your phone it launches a built in app on the phone. It's an NFC "programming" application. Boy I was so excited however I was quickly disappointed by this app.
The issues:
1. After a long period of time the application queries your phone for all applications that you installed.... in fact every time you launch this application it does this and it takes about a minute for this process to finish if you have a lot of apps it might take longer.
2. The first app I picked was Hey DJ! I just picked one at random. Once that was done I exited the app and then NFC paired my device. The phone prompted me to accept the connection which I did then off to a blank black screen you go, and then you wait.... and wait..... and wait... Now in all fairness you do see a few of those loading dots 'wooshing by' over and over again while this is going on and it takes about 45 seconds to a minute. I thought "Ok maybe this is a glitch?" I rebooted my phone relaunched the NFC app and picked a different app... same exact results. At this rate you might as well have unlocked the phone and launched the app manually because it's much faster.
3. At this point I thought "Well Nokia can fix this later..." So I decieded I wanted to pick a different application I decided to pick Xbox Music.... nope you can't. How about the Alarm app.... nope..... Long story short you can't pick ANY app that is built in to the OS not even calculator.
4. You cant chain actions together as well. Meaning you can't NFC pair your phone have it set an alarm, and then turn the ringer off/down. It just doesn't do this...at all.
So for wireless charging it works... and if you NEED to have your phone standing instead of laying then this is the device...but for NFC it's nearly useless.
FYI I did try a free NFC app from the app store and tried a basic NFC tag and it didn't seem to work, admittedly I didn't try too hard though.
My opinion is, until WP8 has advanced NFC support there is NO reason to buy this unless:
1. MS releases better NFC functionality.
2. Developers come out with a solution.
3. Nokia (who actually can change the OS) gives us better NFC support.
I'm glad I had a gift card and didn't really spend my money on this thing. I am optimistic about better support though.
-Chris