[nylug-talk] NOKIA 800 vs iPhone

[Thomas P Brisco]

There are quite a number of these in Japan (you'll see it quite a bit -
especially in the "electronics" part of town - Akihabara?); in addition
to Suica (their train/subway previous Wash DC style tickets, then Metro-card
like, now cell phone).  I'm not sure what they do about theft, but the rest
of it is quite a mess, frankly.  I walked into one large electronics store,
and on check-out noted no less than *four* check-out dongles for
variety of electronic cash means. Agh.

The theft and fraud stuff is *key*.  I, for one, don't keep/use debit 
cards -
since the theft/fraud is _my_ problem; with my credit card, it is the CC
company's problem ... (I'm ok with being responsible for theft, but not
fraud when I have to depend on their "security" ...)

- Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Antony P Joseph" <antony at panathara.org>
To: "NYLUG Technical Discussion" <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] NOKIA 800 vs iPhone


> Hi
>> I heard on the TV that phone maker are considering adding a
>> 'contactless' credit card in phones. That would remove the need for the
>> credit card ;-) But make you cell phone theft more problematic.
>
> So Credit card wallet is gone. What is the next useful gadget we can put
> in our pocket in place of credit card wallet?
>
> With regards
> Antony
>