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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:Why attached to a phone? by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Interesting

    well.. the idea is that it cuts down on the seperate things you have to carry..

    with eventually you having to carry just one thing(preferably that has the data portions somewhere backed up automagically where they're easily replaceable securely for you if you lose the thing).

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    world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.