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Cell phones as Credit Cards

Posted by samzenpus on from the cut-up-your-phone dept.

ante_up writes "We should have known this was coming. Business Week reported that Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. (DCM ) is vamping up their cell phone technology. First they added a debit card facility and now are expanding to full credit card capability. What else can you add to a cell phone?"

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  1. What will they think of next? by msmercenary · · Score: 5, Funny

    I discovered an awesome feature on my phone, in between the text messaging and e-mail and bluetooth and credit card and camera. It gives me the ability to hold a multimedia (voice only) conversation with another person. All I have to do is punch in some kind of locator code (similar to an IP address), and I can actually *speak* to the person.

    It's amazing all of the nifty things they can pack into cell phones these days.