Annotating things with the Nokia 3220

Nokia lent me a 3220 phone that can read and write RFID tags. I decided to try labeling my things with stickers that link to the web.

First I tagged a yellow beanie, which I crocheted from wool that I’ve dyed with heather, meadowsweet, and lupin. I wanted to label the beanie with a link to my blog.

I touched the tag with the phone, and it said “no shortcut on tag”. It took me a while to figure out how to create a new shortuct. Finally I managed to create the link to hobbyprincess.com. Then I stored ("wrote") the shortcut on the tag.

Now when I touch the tag, the phone asks if I want it to connect to hobbyprincess.com.

So far so good. Except it doesn’t work.

The phone reads the tag fine, but it is unable to open pages with pictures - that is, most of the Web. There’s a workaround via Google, which automatically converts Web pages into a mobile-friendly format, but one has to write the Googlized address on the tag which is aggravating because the address is extremely long.

Also, the reader is located in the center on the phone’s back, which is the place where you grab the phone. It would make sense to move it to the top, like with bar code readers.

It is exciting to see Nokia is coming up with products for annotating physical objects. However, the current 3220 is not yet quite up to the job. For consumers, crafters and designers to really benefit, the Web access should work smoothly, creating new annotations should be more simple, and the reader should be better positioned.

Comments

[Ulla-Maaria]

ソフトウェアは他の問題を含んでいる。より多くの細部。しかし私は開発のためのよい考えを見つけ.

[pablo altclas]

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