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I was interested in NFC payments using a smartwatch. Do these watches support NFC payment? I didn't see any mention of it.
by varbhat 2y ago
I was interested in NFC payments using a smartwatch. Do these watches support NFC payment? I didn't see any mention of it.
- erohead 2y agoNope. I just use my phone.
- yalok 2y agoanecdotally, NFC payment is my #1 use for Apple Watch, by far. It's so much work to pull out a phone and unlock it! :)
- isjustintime 2y agoPersonally I never found myself using my NFC payment watch. It felt like if I was venturing far enough to the store, I'm just going to bring my phone with me anyways. I wonder if this differs for areas that don't get as much suburban sprawl.
- eisa01 2y agoI never bring my phone with me when I go running, but occasionally pick something up and pay with my watch afterwards
- bentcorner 2y agoI use NFC payments on my watch all the time, even though I have my phone and card in my pocket. Tapping my watch is just easier than digging into my pockets and/or opening my wallet app on my phone.
- spaceguillotine 2y agoi like you use NFC via watch way more than by Phone. I don't wanna take out my phone all the time, i'd like to look at my phone screen less and less as time goes on.
- fennecfoxy 2y agoYeah it's very useful if your PT system takes card (such as tube/buses in London).
- bigstrat2003 2y agoI personally don't use NFC payment at all. I just can't see the utility in it. If I leave the house I have my wallet, and I find it easier to take my card out of my wallet than to fiddle with NFC on my phone.
- 4ndrewl 2y agoWonder if this is a nationality thing? In the UK I'd say ~30% of sales are done via phones/watches these days.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoThat's fascinating to me, because many times I've tried to do that it's an exercise in frustration. Terminals don't always have the sensor in the same spot, phones sometimes don't register the connection, and so on. Maybe things work better in the UK?
- fphhotchips 2y agoIt can be a bit difficult, particularly now that some phones are getting more demanding about re-authorising before it will go through. Tap-try to get fingerprint scanner working-tap again is a much less fluid procedure than tap-go. The position thing is just something you get used to. There's not that many reader models in active use and most of them are pretty good about marking where the nfc reader is these days.
- phatskat 2y agoI’m in the US and in the last few years things have flipped to where I’m more surprised when a place doesn’t have tap to pay.
- vel0city 2y agoSometimes I leave the house with only my phone. Why carry two things when one thing will do fine for a quick trip? Its my car keys, my credit card, my transit pass, etc. I've been moving towards using NFC payments for activating gas pumps as those readers still have you fully insert your card exposing the full mag strip. Its also often faster for me to just tap my phone than to take my wallet out, pull out the specific card I'm wanting to use to pay, tapping/inserting that card, putting that card back, and then putting my wallet back. Instead my phone which still has a touch unlock is already unlocked before I take it out of my pocket and ready to be tapped and then put back in my pocket.
- theshackleford 2y agoI use mine constantly, it’s been one of my favourite things to be able to leave the house and not having to take my wallet/phone with me. Less to carry, less to idly distract myself with.
- doublepg23 2y agoI use NFC for all my payments minus bars and restaurants. (NE USA) I also switched all my door locks to use Apple Home Key which is a fun party trick.
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- jsheard 2y agoThese use standard watch straps, so you could put them on one of those NFC-payment straps as a workaround.
- 1024core 2y agoThe chip inside claims to support Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh, NFC, Thread and Zigbee. Maybe someone can hack together a payments app using the NFC?
- numpad0 2y agoPayment is more of tamper resistance and trust problem than protocol problem. You don't want a hackable card tied to your credit.
- garaetjjte 2y agoMaybe you could reverse-engineer HCE from bank Android app, but that would be rather fragile.
- fennecfoxy 2y agoYou can't really, unless you get involved in the financial systems afaik. It's not just some open thing that anybody can implement; there's a chain of trust involved and for good reason.
- fennecfoxy 2y agoTbf I want a ring to do it. Samsung execs screwed up bad when they released the galaxy ring not only without nfc payments but also for that horrendous price. What a joke, now the big boy companies are proving that once you ditch engineers for suits enshittification begins.