Reading this makes me happy in the pants, but at the same time a little upset it isn’t the defacto standard.
Some snippets:
Besides a few little bumps in getting the WAP push through to my phone to download the credit card information technology into the NFC chip in the Nokia 6126 they gave me the process went pretty smoothly. It was simply a mater of putting my SIM card into the new phone, making sure my registration was correct, receiving a WAP push, downloading the application, transferring my contacts to the phone and I was good to go.
The NFC chip actually sits on the front end of the Nokia flip phone which appears, from how I have been using it so far, to be the logical ergo-dynamic placement. The phone has to be on in order for the chip to be read (which is weird when you consider that a key fab is not something thats needs to be on ALL the time). But this is probably because of long term Buying Based Over The Air Marketing schemes that such a technology makes possible.
I have to admit. I have had the phone for a week now and it is very
very very convenient. I have been using it on the 6 train NYC subway
system and at Duane Reade’s. I find my self wishing that more places
used it. I mean, it makes sense and is very convenient. My phone is
usually already out (or the easiest thing to grab) when I am paying for
small things.
I can’t stress how awesome this is, I suggest you check out the entire article from Mopocket