Is no NFC a dealbreaker for this $200 phone? #mkbhd #smartphone #mkbhdpodcast

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  1. This show is entertaining when you know what you are talking about, and super frustrating and worthless when you go on for long periods of time about things you haven't bothered to prep for in the slightest. Todays show sucked azz

  2. We got the same thing in Switzerland called TWINT.
    But I prefer Apple Pay, it’s quite a bit more convenient.
    But TWINT is great for transferring money to friends…

  3. One of the things not mentioned here is UPI is inter-operable, sort of like email ID. Your ID is all that matters, you can make payments from any of your bank accounts and similarly the receiver can set any of his bank account as the active one for his UPI ID. Just like email where your email ID is important, not the provider behind it. That has been a game changer.

  4. I mean, it would absolutely be a dealbreaker in North America (good luck getting NA to adopt this, we just got Apple Pay when India's had this for a LONG time), just not everywhere else lol.

  5. I'm from Malaysia and to echo some of my other fellow Malaysians in the comments, we have a mixture of both tap to pay and QR payments.

    What happened was tap to pay was initially just for credit/debit cards with the feature built in, while smartphone banking was still trying to get itself up and running. It didn't help that we only got Google Pay/Apple Pay rather recently, with Samsung Pay doing a lot of the initial heavy lifting for Samsung users only.

    In the interim, banks developed QR code payments for banking apps and e-wallets to use which not only was easier to implement since all you need is a camera on your phone, but it also lowered the barrier to entry for merchants to go cashless. A lot of the tap to pay systems needed specific POS hardware to execute said payments but the QR codes could be printed out and displayed for very small merchants at no additional cost.

    Now we have a healthy mix of both though the breakdown seems to be QR for small to medium businesses and tap to pay for medium to large businesses. I'm glad both exist. I guess it goes without saying that unlike other countries, we haven't implemented anything other than payments through NFC, so not having NFC doesn't cause us to lose access to public transport or gyms, so that's another reason why the lack of an NFC wouldn't really phase us (and I'm willing to bet the same goes for most of SEA).