NFC shortcut button

[ryu1]

Remember the good old days of qwerty keyboard phones? If yes then i'm sure you also remember the shortcut buttons that they had. Devices such as HP jornada 720, or nokia e90, they all had hardware buttons that allows you to jump directly from one application to another without forcing you to access the task manager.

However, because qwerty keyboard phones are no longer produced, those buttons will never appear again.
But there is a way.
The NFC technology allows you to program a nfc tag to launch a specific application. So what I did was to get some nfc tags, take one, cut its anthenna, and stick a button on the cut, so the tag will only be activated when I press the button.

More details on how I did it here: http://simpledevices.blogspot.ro/2015/11/nfc-shortcut-button.html

The plan is to mount a similar button to the next of the nfc tags, and place them behind the silicon case of the phone, each tag will be programmed with a specific application, just like the shortcuts of the old devices.

 

[r4veren]

I bought a couple of Dimple.io buttons which work in the exact same way (and really well I might add), but until I finally got them (ungh, Kickstarter), I had customized everything to my liking with Xposed Additions and had no more use for the physical buttons

 

[celderic]

This is a good idea.

Sent from my SM-N9005

 

[tigsandmitch]

this is awesome, there is a company that has 4 in one check it here http://dimple.io/

 

[BELOWTDK]

this is awesome, there is a company that has 4 in one check it here http://dimple.io/

I've considered ordering these but not sure how i feel about stick on accessories.

 

[darkman1983]

Oh, this is good to know.

 

[xdm9mm]

Great mod.. there is also a screen protector theu sell now with imaginary buttons at the top and yoy have to install their app to make it work like a physical button...