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Jul 17, 2015 | 6:49 am

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Originally Posted by Jimmie76

There was a lady on my commute yesterday who had her phone out ready to use it and then changed her mind. When I asked her on the way down to the platform why she'd not used it and she said she only had 5% battery left and a long trip to Upminster.

I saw a brilliant idea someone had done with their Oyster card but TFL do not approve of this. He'd taken the NFC Chip and antenna out of the Oyster card (Google it to find out how) and then fitted it to a bracelet. Just put his hand over the reader and it let him through.

One of my iphone cases has a built in card holder space, but the problem I encounter on some NFC-using public transport systems is that a NFC-using bank card messes up my ability to use the public transport system's NFC card when the NFC-using cards are back to back. And then I have to dig the appropriate card out and separate the cards in order for the system to process my payment.

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