heypiotr
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Product Manager, Developer Experience @ Estimote
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The thing about CSR BLE mesh is, they differentiate between "active" and "passive" members, and the "active" members use a lot of energy. Mesh in Estimote Beacons is the first that's truly sustainable on battery power…
Actually, we did a bunch of testing at Estimote and we strongly suspect that the NFC in iPhones is just the "passive" variety, the same that's being put into contactless cards and the new Proximity Beacon => it's not…
We're yet to see how Google implements this on Android. Currently it's iOS only, and the "Today" Chrome widget only, no push notifications at all. Also, see the above comment from jimiasty about Google ranking/filtering…
Wholeheartedly agree! We never publish a blog post before the feature actually is live. We want people to be able to immediately go ahead and play with the it—which is also why we treat these posts as mini-readmes, i.e.…
Piotr, Tech Evangelist @ Estimote here. We try to mitigate any of such risks by: (a) we'll start the sprint with an outline of a blog post, a few key points, and a general theme. Then we get to work, and as we're…
From my experience, this usually happens with the older/cheaper Android devices that use a combined BT+WiFi radio/chipset (Nexus 4, Galaxy S3 etc.) Fortunately, the Android hardware is getting better and better, e.g.…