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Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Apple Card and the Prepaid Innovation of Apple Pay Suica

Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Transit Platforms Contactless Payment Turf Wars: PiTaPa Pitfalls Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Why Oyster is missing from mobile Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Tapping the potential of […]

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Google Pixel 3a has a FeliCa Problem

iPhone X was not the only smartphone to have a NFC problem. Japanese users sites report that Google Pixel 3a models marked G020D have a FeliCa defect. Google Support on […]

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WWDC19 Apple Pay Scorecard

Now that WWDC19 is over, here’s a look at the scorecard compared with the WWDC19 Apple Pay wish list. iOS 13 Core NFC gained Read/Write support for NDEF, FeliCa, MIFARE, […]

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Apple Pay Suica and PASMO Service Mode

Service Mode is a weird function that doesn’t have a counterpart on the Android Suica•PASMO side. The JR East Apple Pay Suica help page used to mention this. The iPhone […]

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Suica•PASMO System Downtime July 6th 2019 (obsolete)

Mobile Suica maintenance is a regular nightly occurrence from 1am~4am with longer once a month sessions. The July 6~7 and July 20~21 Suica system maintenance work is very unusual for […]

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This is why I will wait for iOS 13 Public Beta to test Apple Pay Suica

Under normal circumstances it costs ¥165 to ride from JR Shinjuku to JR Tokyo. This iOS 13 beta tester found that his Suica card balance was updated to 50 million […]

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