Unlock Nokia’s Car App on all Lumias now and have convenience at your finger tips

Back when the Nokia Lumia 925 was announced, we brought you an early wait at Car App, a forthcoming app from Nokia that was enabled via NFC and used in conjunction with their wireless CR-200 auto mountain. The app provided the time, weather, battery life, quick telephone call access and easy taps to HERE Drive + and Nokia Music. It was not simply well done, but seemingly very useful for when y'all are otherwise occupied with driving.

The problem is, we never really saw that app materialize in the Nokia Collection. Well, as it turns out, information technology comes with the Nokia Accessories app (found under Settings) and is in fact, hidden. The app can patently simply exist activated by scanning an NFC tag that is found on Nokia's CR-200 machine mount and is similar to the Desktop App that is only accessible past Nokia's Qi chargers. That $100 car mountain though is difficult to observe and allow's be honest, quite pricey.

Now, the programmer behind the pop app NFC Interactor, has a release called Car Mode that enables that app. Achievement unlocked! (Run across the Nokia Machine app demoed in the above video).

Car Mode enables Nokia's Car assistance app

Car Fashion launcher is elementary plenty. Information technology allows you to directly launch Nokia's Motorcar App on command but more chiefly, it goes fifty-fifty farther by allowing y'all to browse an NFC tag of your own for quick launching in your car. If you don't want to bother with NFC, simply opt for the Tile creation ability and you're good to become for one-click launches.

The app is free to try in its basic form (launch Auto App, create Tile) but costs $0.99 for the NFC characteristic and to get rid of whatever purchase reminders. Note: You need Nokia Accessories app to enable this

Nokia's subconscious Desktop app

Similarly, the developer as well had a Desktop Fashion app that enables Nokia'due south Weather-Clock combo screensaver. That Nokia creation works when you tap the NFC section on their Qi wireless stand and acts as a quick reminder screen. With the Desktop Way app, you can enable that at any time. Likewise, you can create an NFC tag for habitation utilise or create a Live Tile for easy access.

Both apps tin be found in the Store for Nokia Lumia phones with Windows Phone 8. Take hold of Car Fashion hither in the Store (You need Nokia Accessories app to enable this) and Desktop Mode hither. Both are free, though a $0.99 unlock will enable advanced features (NFC tagging). This will not work on non-Lumia handsets.

Via: AAWP

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