Why can't they do this with any cell phone by having an RFID (I'm assuming that's what this has? Like my debit card has for PayPass?) chip inside something (a sticker, etc.) that attaches somewhere to your cell phone? I mean, at this point, who wants to change from their current cell (which they may or may not like) to what has to be, at this early stage, a small selection of phones just for this convenience? Maybe in a few years when almost EVERY cell phone will have this feature, but now....
they can do this with any phone, they just have an agreement with sprint for the trial. i use my work ID card the same way on the same scanners to enter and exit the system. BART has a tendency to do things very small scale first to "work out the bugs" but then they find a lot more bugs when they ramp up to full use.
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Why can't they do this with any cell phone by having an RFID (I'm assuming that's what this has? Like my debit card has for PayPass?) chip inside something (a sticker, etc.) that attaches somewhere to your cell phone? I mean, at this point, who wants to change from their current cell (which they may or may not like) to what has to be, at this early stage, a small selection of phones just for this convenience? Maybe in a few years when almost EVERY cell phone will have this feature, but now....
they can do this with any phone, they just have an agreement with sprint for the trial. i use my work ID card the same way on the same scanners to enter and exit the system. BART has a tendency to do things very small scale first to "work out the bugs" but then they find a lot more bugs when they ramp up to full use.