It was a busy day for all things Suica Apple Pay. Earlier today I wrote about why Suica Apple Pay is the only transit card that matters now because Suica is the only transit card system that works on mobile: The important question is what do all the other transit […]
Suica Apple Pay Outage: Where There’s Smoke, There’s More Smoke (U)
Right after posting about Mobile Suica, Japanese twitter users started complaining that Mobile Suica and Suica Apple Pay charging stopped working starting around 12:30 pm. Android Mobile Suica users are also affected so this appears to be a JR East cloud outage affecting Apple Pay Suica service. Suica transit works […]
Apple Pay Suica Express Transit & NFC Readers
Apple Pay Suica Express Transit is one of the great killer features of Apple Pay in Japan. Most of the time it works great but some older readers in stores are not compatible with Express Transit. Fortunately this is changing fast. Panasonic makes some of the most reliable NFC readers […]
Suica App Review
i-modeThere is a funny story from the 2005 President Bush visit to Japan. The Bush staff freaked out when they rode the Tokyo trains and saw that most of the Japanese had eyes glued to their feature phones. Why? Feature phones were only for making calls, right? Japanese i-mode feature phones had […]
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