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Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - CASHLESS - FeliCa - iPhone - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC tags - Suica

iPhone SE: Unfortunate Success

iPhone SE is here and perfectly matches the essential points outlined in October: NFC background tag reading in place for new Apple Pay features going forward. Touch ID that removes […]

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Rethinking Face ID in the Face Mask Touchless Era

When iPhone X came out in November 2017, IT journalist Tsutsumu Ishikawa named Suica the Apple Pay winner. What he really meant to say was that Suica Express Transit was […]

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5G Contactless Payments Part 1: Fast QR vs Ultra Wide Band enhanced Mobile FeliCa and MIFARE

Payment empire players envision a brave new world of 5G enhanced contactless payment solutions, seen in recent moves by JR East and other major Japanese transit companies to replace expensive […]

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What will Apple do about the 10% iPhone sales drop in Japan?

The writing was on the wall when Docomo dropped the price of iPhone XR shortly after it went on sale. Shortly after that Tim Cook explained the Japanese market situation […]

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Location aware Apple Pay Suica fixes the region setting problem

Changing the iPhone region to add Apple Pay Suica confuses a lot of users. Many are not familiar with region settings and what they do, and it’s far too easy […]

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Suica joins Coke ON IC, is it worth it?

Coke ON is one more point gimmick app that offers a free beverage for points, bottle top ‘stamps’, earned with purchases via FeliCa/Coke ON IC (Transit IC, Rakuten, nanaco, PiTaPa, […]

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