More Near Field Communication (NFC) tests are going on around the world, Japan is advancing to their very own NFC v2.0 and expand into more services. Here are some of the services that are currently presented in IC CARD WORLD Tokyo.

Several companies are presenting their new Felica chip. The new contactless chipset has bigger memory capacity and double the transmission speed (424kbps). Here are some of the demonstration of the possible NFC usage in Tokyo,

You can use your NFC enabled mobile phone as a ATM card. Once you place your NFC enabled mobile phone on the ATM machine, the machine will recognize your identity and read the security information from your phone directly. The security information sent to the ATM machine includes your bank account ID, maximum cash out per day and other customize settings depends on different banks.

Once you key in your PIN number (don't think they will skip this steps!), you can take your cash as per normal. The biggest advantage of using the NFC enabled mobile phone is up to 6 card information, which means 6 banks can be stored into the phone at a time.

Japan taxi might soon implement contactless payment in the taxi, letting you bring less cash while you can pay the taxi fee from the stored value or real time transaction.

Some of the Japan petrol station is already equip with the contactless payment terminal for mobile phone.

And lastly, in the future you will be also able to order, pay your food in the restaurant directly without waiting for the waiter.

The contactless payment solution will be reaching your country one day, I hope US is not the last one!

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