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☹️ no nfc
Or wireless charging, bit embarrassing in the good year of our lord 2024
Holy shit that is a dealbreaker. All I do is wireless charging
Yeah this surprised me. Is NFC payment not common in India?
Nah, india has UPI which uses QR codes.
Madness!
Why?
Even a low-end phone comes with a good enough camera for QR which means wider adoption, you need a higher tier phone for NFC.
We have a similar system in my country and I believe we copy it from India, it works and is convenient.
Because 0 security
What? Payments are obviously going to be secure.
QR codes cannot contain enough data to put cryptographic keys.
Okay? QR codes are displayed publicly. They display the unique ID of the merchant. That's all. The payment happens over the internet which is encrypted.
Lol what?
I remember almost a decade ago, the Oneplus 2 not having it was a major downside. I can't believe we are still doing this song and dance.
I guess it's main target is India where there is almost no need for nfc. Everything is paid through qr code here.
What is nfc?
Near field communication - it's an antenna that sits inside the back case and let's your phone interact with payment terminals and the like that support it.
You can add your tap and pay card to your phone and tap your phone instead.
.. you could just put your card on the back of the phone too
The phone can support multiple cards, eg credit cards and transit. Those readers usually won’t work if you stack two cards together.
And biometric pin
NFC payments are more secure than card payments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field_communication
Thank you