JR East announced the end of the Mobile Suica ¥1030 annual membership fee for all Android devices on February 26 2020. Mobile Suica is free for Apple Pay users. JR […]
Huawei hopes to steal Japanese iPhone Market Share with Global FeliCa
Huawei released the Mate 20 Pro in Japan November 30 with a clear goal of offering a lower priced smartphone in the Japanese market where carrier subsidies are going away and iPhone […]
New Apple Pay Suica ads
Google Pay Suica has been getting most of the JR East Suica marketing love these past few months but Apple Pay Suica is not down and out. JR East posted […]
Pixel 3 FeliCa details and Google Pay roadmap
Note: I’m updating and consolidating Pixel 3 information here instead of separate posts Pixel 3 FeliCa related information is trickling in as devices get ready to ship. Pixel 3 details will give […]
The Apple Pay Japan disruption: how Super Suica can change contactless payments in Japan and beyond
Global FeliCa iPhone, FeliCa Pixel, Super Suica and all that Apple Pay Japan arrived just 2 years ago and has clearly disrupted the Japanese contactless payments market in many important […]
Pixel 3 FeliCa and iPhone X NFC problem switchers
That didn’t take long. A few hours after the Pixel 3 announcement with confirmation of FeliCa models for Japan, iPhone X users like this one are ready to dump their […]