Nah i mean in Japan i buy a credit card sized card. It is waterproof and I don't need to take care of it in any way. It has no battery, it does not stop working when dropped. It can stay in my wallet (just swipe the wallet) and you can buy small stuff with it (public transportation, corner store, supermarket, electronics store etc...).
I called it retarded to put the exact same technology into something that is heavier and prone to more defects.
The downvotes are plain silly because putting the same tech into a cellphone, while technically feasible, is inferior to those cards in (almost) every way. The only benefit is recharging over air or direct debit from your bank account. They should rather allow me to charge the card itself with the cellphones NFC.
Thanks for the clarification. I swear I read it twice trying to make sense of it. :-) I hear what you're saying, but we're unlikely to get that in the U. S. Hell, just getting chip-and-PIN has been moving along with all of the gracefulness and agility of a glacier.
I called it retarded to put the exact same technology into something that is heavier and prone to more defects.
The downvotes are plain silly because putting the same tech into a cellphone, while technically feasible, is inferior to those cards in (almost) every way. The only benefit is recharging over air or direct debit from your bank account. They should rather allow me to charge the card itself with the cellphones NFC.