Marc Ehrich, Product Manager Mobile
So you’re at a trade fair or conference and you meet some interesting people you’d like to connect with. Business cards are one option, but wouldn’t it be easier to just shake hands via XING? Well, our Mobile Handshake feature, released in September 2010, let’s you do just that. The Mobile Handshake uses HTML5 geolocation functionality in smartphones to allow XING members to add contacts via their browser or native apps (iOS, Android, BlackBerry).
The latest version of our Android app which we released today makes it much easier to add and share business contacts. Near field communication (NFC) offers users a quick and secure way of transferring data wirelessly over short distances. Anyone interested in adding a new contact can simply open up their XING profile on their smartphone and then hold it up to the smartphone of the person they want to connect with. The process involved in sharing other members’ digital business cards is just as easy, too (you might have to turn on the English transcript in the video below):
As you can see in the video, it’s really easy to exchange details. To take advantage of this feature, users need to have an NFC-enabled smartphone running the Android 4.0 operating system (Ice Cream Sandwich), currently available on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The “old” Mobile Handshake is of course still available and works on any platform.
As we’ve teamed up with Samsung to present this new feature, we’re raffling off two Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphones. If you’d like to take part in the prize draw, just send an email to sweepstake@xing.com with “XING Beam” in the subject line and details of your most interesting mobile networking experience to date in the main text field. The closing data for submissions is February 6, 2012.
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