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Mobile Codes beta moved to archived status; site remains available

The Mobile Codes experimental beta was one of the first items in the Nokia Beta Labs catalog, added in April 2007.  The Mobile Codes site makes it easy to generate your own barcodes for use on websites, promotional materials and business cards. 

Business card barcodes, demonstrated by Jukka Eklund

Guest writer: Jukka Eklund, product manager


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Hi there!

2D barcodes pointing directly to application downloads

We got an interesting comment to the Share Online 3.0 feedback form:

It would be great if you could include a qr-code so we can quickly get the sis file's url into the phone, instead of having to transfer it to the PC first.

You mean like this?

QR code creation added for Nokia Mobile Codes beta

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Quick note: Nokia Mobile Codes beta adds support for creating QR codes, in addition to Data Matrix.

I believe these two are the main alternatives to emerge as de-facto standards for 2D barcodes. Nokia barcode reader is able to read both.