1- The Felica chip takes it's power from the 'reader device' so even if your phone battery is dead it should still work.
2- I'm guessing your cellphone would usually be in your purse too. I hope you don't lend it to "strangers" very often?
3- Thats a *dangerous* theory considering anyone with the right numbers could use your C.C. Only people who have the physical phone can make a transaction!
4- Everytime you use the service it shows the debit with current balance on the phone.
5- ?? Do you have a MasterCard..?!? LOL.
6- Consider it a P2P tranaction that does not really involve either your bank or cellphone carrier.
I think it's possible that people are getting confused about the main thrust of what Felica does in Japan. Basically this is a pre-paid (with cash) system that charges up your phones 'wallet'. Yes, it can link to C.C. and even personal bank account, but that's still quite rare here, and it requires enter pin # etc. extra steps to complete the tranaction.
I should point out that this NFC (Near Field Communication), co-developed by Sony and Phillips, needs the connection to be made within an inch (or so depending on the set-up). It has already been deployed in 10's of Millions of plastic style credit cards w/o a security breach. Now this technology is planted into a cellphone.. thats all.
Most people will find it very convenient to make small 'fast' purchases with this system instead of plugging coins into a machine or digging out pennies at the cash register. Someday, I think you will agree.. 8-)
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Myria:
1- The Felica chip takes it's power from the 'reader device' so even if your phone battery is dead it should still work.
2- I'm guessing your cellphone would usually be in your purse too. I hope you don't lend it to "strangers" very often?
3- Thats a *dangerous* theory considering anyone with the right numbers could use your C.C. Only people who have the physical phone can make a transaction!
4- Everytime you use the service it shows the debit with current balance on the phone.
5- ?? Do you have a MasterCard..?!? LOL.
6- Consider it a P2P tranaction that does not really involve either your bank or cellphone carrier.
I think it's possible that people are getting confused about the main thrust of what Felica does in Japan. Basically this is a pre-paid (with cash) system that charges up your phones 'wallet'. Yes, it can link to C.C. and even personal bank account, but that's still quite rare here, and it requires enter pin # etc. extra steps to complete the tranaction.
I should point out that this NFC (Near Field Communication), co-developed by Sony and Phillips, needs the connection to be made within an inch (or so depending on the set-up). It has already been deployed in 10's of Millions of plastic style credit cards w/o a security breach. Now this technology is planted into a cellphone.. thats all.
Most people will find it very convenient to make small 'fast' purchases with this system instead of plugging coins into a machine or digging out pennies at the cash register. Someday, I think you will agree.. 8-)