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People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?
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Stick your credit card under the phone cover and you have tap to pay.
Jokes aside, but in Russia, when NFC stopped working on Apple phones, some banks made payment stickers like this.
true. Though I don't know how you'd lock it behind biometrics.
Above 25 or 30 USD (don't remember exactly) my bank requires me to enter the pin, that's just as good.
Oh well, that works then.
Although you should be using an RFID blocking case to hold your cards.