Christopher:
Christopher Kobayashi wrote:
> Currently to charge your Suica you need to feed the card into a
> charging terminal, pay, and it spits it back out. Once we get our
> keitais w/ built-in Suica, would we just put the keitai close to the
> charger, and pay ... or the other way around?
>
> How about charging it just by connecting to some type of secure net
> enabled app(web/java) that connects to our bank/CC. Then we wouldn't
> need to goto a charging terminal, but I'm sure they thought about this
> already. It wouldn't be a direct connection between the two, you would
> need to approve moving money from your bank/CC to the Suica/Edy.
This is already in testing, and you'll find images of these i-Applis
in our reports:
http://www.eurotechnology.com/store/suica/
http://www.eurotechnology.com/store/walletphone/
That's one of the big points of putting FeliCa into the mobile phones:
to access the IC-card with iApplis, and do online + offline
transactions.
Gerhard
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