you're an idiot.You haven't yet explained how the phone is going to automatically know which card of the many you wish to use for a particular transaction. Perhaps - inbetween throwing around unpleasant accusations of "religious nutters" - you might explain how this might work, and then elaborate on how you can be so sure that one system is better than the other, given that the other DOESN'T PRESENTLY EXIST and HASN'T EVEN BEEN ANNOUNCED.
So, you've got to take your phone out of your pocket, turn it on, select the app, select the card you wish to use, and then do the fingerprint authentication before you can make the payment? Speedy!
If you're unable to construct a decent argument, best zip it, because your personal abuse tantrums do you no favours.
I have to say that's never happened with me, but then the only time I've ever used it is at WH Smith and a handful of other outlets. Curiously, Superdrug took away the contactless option a while ago.
Men on the internet in arguing about phones shocker
I've only really used it in pubs
Not sure if it'd work whilst still in the wallet as I have various work related fobs in there too.
It's not like you ever get really obsessed about anything, and go on and on and on about it here, is it?
"you're an idiot" is the most sensible argument that could possibly derived from your posts, i'm afraid.
My phone is:
Where it would really work is if it also sorted out loyalty cards as well. This was touted years ago, but has never really happened. But for it to be actually useful it can't involved fucking about with fingerprint readers as that defeats the whole point of contactless payments (although there's still the tricky problem of finding yourself truly fucked if your phone runs out of juice miles from home).
I'd be willing to bet I could do all that a hell of a lot quicker than the time it takes me to find stuff in my wallet.
people aren't really talking about a traditional phone. they are talking about a new payment method. its quite an interesting development.
Stop now please as your personal abuse is disrupting this thread.
That's a bit of silly argument. You may have the world's biggest wallet for all I know, but that won't be the same for everyone else. Some people prefer to keep their phones deep in their bags, for example. Crazy, I know, but there you go.
ARGH. You don't have to "fuck about" with the iPhone fingerprint reader. That's why it is so good. You press the home button. That's it. This is why every other reader out there has failed, they add another step to things and in some cases require you to change your grip etc (HTC even put one on the back ffs)
Quite. Which brings us back to my saying this is a feature that I would be interested in.
nonsense. you're the one acting like a bellend with your ridiculous claims.
It's a shit idea for contactless payments. And you're getting a little carried away with your iLove.
There's already the passbook app in iOS. It works really well, but there isn't exactly a huge range of companies using it yet. British Airways, a couple of hotel chains and Starbucks are the only ones I have in there.
Stop now or be banned.
Me too. The s3 is a great device. Obviously you need to root and update the Rom to something without all the crap, but after that, the quality of the hardware shines through.
Google had the same thing and that failed to get much adhesion for the same reason. It really has to be an 'everything' solution for it to have any chance of working, otherwise you end up still carrying around a mix of cards and your phone.
From your own link:
a pitiful way to deal with an argument, and poor way of running a forum.
There's an issue where it switches itself off and flashes its logo until it decides it wants to be on again which can last anywhere between a few seconds and many hours. Apart from that its great.
