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NTT DoCoMo Debuts Credit Card Phone

Posted by samzenpus on from the my-phone-is-maxed-out dept.

Scott S. writes "NTT DoCoMo Unveils its new phone allowing a simply wave to pay for items at the supermarket, rent movies, get airplane tickets and more. The i-mode FeliCa serves as a "mobile wallet" that detects weak electronic signals from a reader/writer and can be used when the phone is off. Credit card phones have been an idea in the past and leave it to the Japanese to make one."

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  1. Re:One FeliCa to access them all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    One thing here in Japan is that most people here are honest, a trait which seems to be absent in the American psyche which is somewhat an irony considering that honesty and religiousity should be a virtue going together.According to the national survey here, most Japanese replied that they are not religious while Americans reelected their s-h*i*t-head president due to religious considerations.

    Also, crime rate here is one of the lowest in the world. Plus most phone here esp. from DoCoMo could be fitted with biometrics. I have seen it from their tech showroom in Tenjin, Fukuoka City.