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Hey, I wanna share this for all TMOUS user. Quote this from another post
"Just wanted all to know, HTC has recently acknowledged an issue with the 16GB SD card that shipped with the US T-Mobile HD2. T-Mobile issued an internal bulletin to this effect and provided a US number (888.356.2375) to call to arrange to have the SD card replaced, from Level 2 to a Level 4 SD card. Alot of HD2's had the Level 2 card installed and this card was found to cause the phone to freeze. The Level # is indicated by a circle with a numeral in the middle of it. Usually on the upper right hand side of the SD card. When you call the number HTC provided they will want you to have the HD2 in front of you with IMEI and S/N ready. The unique thing is HTC has rescinded their policy to send the 'bad' SD card back so if they send you a replacement Level 4 card you will end up with 2 SD cards. (I'm sure that Level 2 card could be reused somewhere) This info is probably even more useful to owners that have installed Android Froyo 2.2 on their HD2 as I have. The ROM's are usually contained on the SD card itself and not flashed internally. HTC does indicate a backorder on the replacement SD cards (up to 2 weeks or so) Hope this helps some of you with the freezing condition."
Hope this will some how help the screen freeze problem. Yay for a class 4 card. I just call in and order my. Very easy and free. Cheer
Edit: oh yeah, and make sure you don't tell them that you reformatted the card. Make thing less complicated.
Update:
Just to clear out a little bit here. When I got the information, this is not an OFFICIAL recall or replacement service. It was really much just a tip from someone that has this done.
They were willing to replace the card for people because they acknowledged that the card do have problem. And they posted the information originally only for people who has problem with the card.
So if you happen to call in, please be aware that there is no such thing as replacement or recall service. You suppose to report a problem with your card. That worked for many people. They just asked for the IMEI or S/n and don't even care about if you are T-mobile customer or not.
Now, seem like there is a high volume of people calling in about the replacement service that they didn't aware. They must started to pick up on that and suspend this service or something until further announcement. If they refuse to give you one, it's because of this.
Update: I just got mine and a few people have confirm. It is a Samsung Class 2 sd card. Please keep the posting about what card you receive so everyone know. Thanks
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Hey, I wanna share this for all TMOUS user. Bangsters, you should order one to we can have the same card . Quote this from another post
"Just wanted all to know, HTC has recently acknowledged an issue with the 16GB SD card that shipped with the US T-Mobile HD2. T-Mobile issued an internal bulletin to this effect and provided a US number (888.356.2375) to call to arrange to have the SD card replaced, from Level 2 to a Level 4 SD card. Alot of HD2's had the Level 2 card installed and this card was found to cause the phone to freeze. The Level # is indicated by a circle with a numeral in the middle of it. Usually on the upper right hand side of the SD card. When you call the number HTC provided they will want you to have the HD2 in front of you with IMEI and S/N ready. The unique thing is HTC has rescinded their policy to send the 'bad' SD card back so if they send you a replacement Level 4 card you will end up with 2 SD cards. (I'm sure that Level 2 card could be reused somewhere) This info is probably even more useful to owners that have installed Android Froyo 2.2 on their HD2 as I have. The ROM's are usually contained on the SD card itself and not flashed internally. HTC does indicate a backorder on the replacement SD cards (up to 2 weeks or so) Hope this helps some of you with the freezing condition."
Hope this will some how help the screen freeze problem. Yay for a class 4 card. I just call in and order my. Very easy and free. Cheer
Edit: oh yeah, and make sure you don't tell them that you reformatted the card. Make thing less complicated.
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Nice call, do they have an email or chat we can do if we don't want to sit on hold?
Can you link to original post?
Thanks
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Nice call, do they have an email or chat we can do if we don't want to sit on hold?
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I took me like 5 min. Just call in
orangekid said:
Nice call, do they have an email or chat we can do if we don't want to sit on hold?
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I called earlier this morning from the same information listed in another post. From the time I called to the time I hung up was less than 5 minutes (including a satisfaction survey)...the hold time was less than 30 seconds.
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Can you link to original post?
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Cannot find that one but found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=796159
Thanks for the heads up. I just gave them a called. They just asked some standard questions but they will be shipping the new 16gb in a week or two (backordered).
Thanks for the info, just ordered mine as well. Told me about 1-1.5 weeks to ship out.
Thanks for the tip just ordered mine
Although the guy thinks it will still be a class 2 when it comes in the mail which doesn't make sense so hopefully he is wrong.
sent from my hd2 aka tmobile evo eatin on some froyo
Class 2 Only?
jriv said:
Thanks for the tip just ordered mine
Although the guy thinks it will still be a class 2 when it comes in the mail which doesn't make sense so hopefully he is wrong.
sent from my hd2 aka tmobile evo eatin on some froyo
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I also inquired into the Class specification of the SD card and my rep. did a check with the warehouse to see if she was unaware of the change to send out Class 4's and came back saying that at this time there is no order for them to be sending out Class 4's so they will be sending me a Class 2 card. But no need to send mine in. So... still Win? I get to have 2 now so I guess.
dang it works. Just ordered mine too, and the lady was really nice and helpful. Was just asking for S/N and some basic info and address to ship the card to. She did say that the new card will be a Class 4 card, and will arrive in about 2 weeks.
Thanks a lot for the info man.
*The whole process took me only about 10 min, no wait time whatsoever. Kudos for HTC to still have a great performing call center.
Just called HTC, phone call took no longer than 5 minutes and the cards are back ordered
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Just called HTC, phone call took no longer than 5 minutes and the cards are back ordered
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what do you tell them? "hey i heard you guys were giving free sd cards cuz mine sucks"? lol
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what do you tell them? "hey i heard you guys were giving free sd cards cuz mine sucks"? lol
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Did you order yours? I just told them my sd card is "on and off" randomly (which is a lie) but hey i got my free one
Yea I got a CSR whose first response was "I JUST talked to you!" and this was my first time calling hahaha I think they are getting a little frustrated...anyways he said that I will be getting a Class 2 instead of 4 so not sure exactly what will come in the mail but a free 16GB card is definitely not bad!
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Yea I got a CSR whose first response was "I JUST talked to you!" and this was my first time calling hahaha I think they are getting a little frustrated...anyways he said that I will be getting a Class 2 instead of 4 so not sure exactly what will come in the mail but a free 16GB card is definitely not bad!
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Lol too many people after reading this post and others are calling in make them confused. Let's spread the words so everyones get a free card lol
5 minute 47 seconds and all done. Cladd 4 coming since it was class 2 they were having the problems with. Great deal, thanks for the tip.
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dang it works. Just ordered mine too, and the lady was really nice and helpful. Was just asking for S/N and some basic info and address to ship the card to. She did say that the new card will be a Class 4 card, and will arrive in about 2 weeks.
Thanks a lot for the info man.
*The whole process took me only about 10 min, no wait time whatsoever. Kudos for HTC to still have a great performing call center.
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Yep exactly the same here, it would be nice if it was a class 4, but makes no difference to me I'm not running the stock card anyway but I won't turn down a free SD card..
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ya, only took a couple minutes. the acted kinda hesitant at first. he asked me where i was getting this information, and i read off that quote to him in the first post in the bold letters. so i pretty much told him i was reading it off of T-Mobile's website. he started to laugh and say something like "i was just curious where everyone was getting this information because i've gotten like 10 phone calls in the last 30 minutes about this, and we don't know anything about it."
i was scared that it wasn't going to work at first, but the only thing i gave him was my name, address, and IMIE #
he said it would be replaced with a class 4, didn't give me a time frame, but if it's free i'll be happy to wait.
crud i didnt think to check the type of card, I just assumed it was a class 4. Oh well, free card and it was super fast. She said it will ship in 3-5 business days. Woot!
I thought we would be able to use the nexus s as a credit/debit card after 2.3.3...... But in the write tags section, i dont see anywhere that says an option like it
:-(
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Even if NFC receives the function of credit/debit card, we must first think about in what places will they receive it. I'm sure movie theater and public big corporation markets will adopt the payment of NFC soon, but I still think we should give it sometime first.
But meanwhile I would love 2 use it where I can...most places do read nfc enabled cards. So how could ot be possible to write on a.credit card?
Maybe get the unknown file the nfc chip reads, then write it as a nfc read only file, then try to use it somewhere?
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so far, it works on public transportation.
I'm sure the adaptation to public market will come soon.
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I thought we would be able to use the nexus s as a credit/debit card after 2.3.3...... But in the write tags section, i dont see anywhere that says an option like it
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You misunderstood. The 2.3.3 update allows DEVELOPERS to add NFC read/write capabilities to their apps. This means that VISA, Mastercard, and other credit card companies can now write apps that use NFC to process payments. We will no doubt see such apps soon.
The default NFC capabilities in 2.3.3 are just for unencrypted transactions like business card trading and such. Credit card transactions, as you can imagine, must be treated with much more sensitivity, and as such only the credit card companies can make those apps.
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I thought we would be able to use the nexus s as a credit/debit card after 2.3.3...... But in the write tags section, i dont see anywhere that says an option like it
:-(
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You need your bank to release an app allowing the phone to access your account and then create the transaction, PROVIDE ENCRIPTION and so on...
Think about this: if the functions has been embedded, anyone "tagging" you would be able to trigger them, let alone that you could mispressing the "pay" button
Moreover, acting as a credit card is not about writing a tag, but emulating one.
In short: is the phone that allows the shop to read your card, not you writing your bank info to their POS
Be patient
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Can't wait to spend money with my phone!!
I just started working, so I just opened a bank account!!!!
But then again, not so thrilled with the ongoing bugs.... "/
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sadkorean34 said:
Even if NFC receives the function of credit/debit card, we must first think about in what places will they receive it. I'm sure movie theater and public big corporation markets will adopt the payment of NFC soon, but I still think we should give it sometime first.
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Hey there,
I live in Australia, banks are rolling-out NFC for payments <$100, they call it PayPass, and I love it. All 7Elevens have it, burger places and cinemas are leading the move as well. It's super fast, just wave your payment card, light goes green within less than a second and that's it!
My NS detects the NFC tags in my payment cards, it just says something like "unknown tag". But I thought that the NS was only a NFC reading unit, don't know if you can program a tag into it -which is pretty much what we need to make a payment I guess.
Cheers.
This was the first thing I thought of when I got this phone. Use nfc to pay for stuff. All we need is for visa or your bank to make an app then plug your card number in and done. Nfc readers are becoming very widespread, vivotech is a big one, Google them and nfc. Its only a matter of time now.
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I am now waiting on my third one. Unfortunately I originally purchased a 16GB version and have had nothing but problems with it.
Neither so far have been able to run more than 30 seconds with the WiFi on without crashing. So I have been thinking I was going to swap the card out for a 32GB card. But before I could do that, now the current phone has tons of dust under the screen, no longer will connect EVER to 3G, and crashes everytime I shut the keyboard.
I have spent at least (without exegarating) 100 hours on the phone with Dell. I have been up the chain of command. Even after send them about 20 links showing were the issues clear up when the 16 GB cards are swapped out, they insist there is nothing wrong with the cards. Lately I can't run a video on the phone, that runs perfectly fine on my Zune HD, without the video and audio staggering (willing to bet the card is not keeping up with the pace the OS is trying to read it). Now even with the WiFi off it crashes CONSTANTLY.
As a result, as I have been waiting for me 3rd replacement, I have contacted the Michigan Attorney Generals Office for consumer protection and now they are on Dell's arse. Yet, they still claim there is nothing wrong with these cards. What both me and the Attorney General are arguing is 2 things...
1) Why they don't just honor the warranty and allow those of us with all these issues to swap out the SD card.
2) Why they have been shipping phones for months and months now if they knew they are defective?
This phone has just been a complete disaster. Unfortunately, to get another Windows Phone with T-Mobile, I would have to go with the HD7. I don't have $500 to shell out on a new phone, and I don't T-Mobile is just going to hand me one, because my Dell is a POS. This is just ridiculous.
On a side note, can someone tell me how to get a SanDisk 32GB CLASS 4 microSD card? Everytime I order one, it comes in a class 2 even though they advertise it as a class 4 and have to just ship it back. Anyone able to give me advice on this or point me to a linke or company that they know has Class 4's?
Thanks for your help in advance.
Hmm interesting. I bough an 8GB DVP a couple of weeks back and have had no problems so far. I recently switched to 32 GB card. The one I got was:
http://amzn.com/B003HIWHN0
It shows class (2) in the picture but the card I got shows class (4).
I replaced mine with a sandisk 32g class 2 and it works. not sure if class 4 works better.
missionsparta said:
I am now waiting on my third one. Unfortunately I originally purchased a 16GB version and have had nothing but problems with it.
Neither so far have been able to run more than 30 seconds with the WiFi on without crashing. So I have been thinking I was going to swap the card out for a 32GB card. But before I could do that, now the current phone has tons of dust under the screen, no longer will connect EVER to 3G, and crashes everytime I shut the keyboard.
I have spent at least (without exegarating) 100 hours on the phone with Dell. I have been up the chain of command. Even after send them about 20 links showing were the issues clear up when the 16 GB cards are swapped out, they insist there is nothing wrong with the cards. Lately I can't run a video on the phone, that runs perfectly fine on my Zune HD, without the video and audio staggering (willing to bet the card is not keeping up with the pace the OS is trying to read it). Now even with the WiFi off it crashes CONSTANTLY.
As a result, as I have been waiting for me 3rd replacement, I have contacted the Michigan Attorney Generals Office for consumer protection and now they are on Dell's arse. Yet, they still claim there is nothing wrong with these cards. What both me and the Attorney General are arguing is 2 things...
1) Why they don't just honor the warranty and allow those of us with all these issues to swap out the SD card.
2) Why they have been shipping phones for months and months now if they knew they are defective?
This phone has just been a complete disaster. Unfortunately, to get another Windows Phone with T-Mobile, I would have to go with the HD7. I don't have $500 to shell out on a new phone, and I don't T-Mobile is just going to hand me one, because my Dell is a POS. This is just ridiculous.
On a side note, can someone tell me how to get a SanDisk 32GB CLASS 4 microSD card? Everytime I order one, it comes in a class 2 even though they advertise it as a class 4 and have to just ship it back. Anyone able to give me advice on this or point me to a linke or company that they know has Class 4's?
Thanks for your help in advance.
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WOW! Boy do we think alike! check out my msg on this thread: How is your DVP after updating to Nodo? Can anyone smell a class action here?
Totally should be one. I get the whole, "you only get penny's back on the dollar because the lawyers eat up everything in a class action suit". But, in this case, anything to make sure that Dell is not profiting off these lemons.
Besides how it looks and the quality of the screen, there is nothing good with these devices.
May biggest question is, how do you end up with an ENTIRE WAREHOUSE FULL OF DEFECTIVE SD CARDS? Every single person you talk to with 16GB either has nothing but crashing after crashing, freezing after freezing, or just ends up admitting they don't really use the thing other than the phone feature (doesn't use WiFi, browser, Zune, etc).
I know it sounds like I am being a smart ass, but I honestly believe that they cut a deal with SanDisk to buy refurbished cards for penny's on the dollar. And here is why: anytime there is an issue with multiple manufacturers involved, the finger pointing starts immediately. Not once has Dell blamed the issue on SanDisk, while at the same time other manufacturers are using the SAME cards and having 1000x the success rate. If there was any chance that SanDisk was to blame for shipping them defective SD cards, Dell would be calling them out with all this bad press. Look at the deal with NoDo... Microsoft points at the carriers; the carriers point at the manufacturers, and the manufacturers point back at the carriers, and the carriers point right back at Microsoft. The fact that Dell is being so silent about all this lends me to believe they are hiding something. And what else could they be hiding that would lend to having an entire manufacturing stock pile of bad SD cards? They got cut a deal and thought no one would know. Now it is a disaster and they are trying to pass the buck onto the consumer.
I say someone sues the pants off them so bad that they never try the mobile market again. They have no business being in it if this is the product they turn out and even worse, if this is how they try to make good on getting caught trying to pull a fast one on the consumer.
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May biggest question is, how do you end up with an ENTIRE WAREHOUSE FULL OF DEFECTIVE SD CARDS? Every single person you talk to with 16GB either has nothing but crashing after crashing, freezing after freezing, or just ends up admitting they don't really use the thing other than the phone feature (doesn't use WiFi, browser, Zune, etc).
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I don't thinik we can say for sure the SD cards are defective. For all we know they could work perfectly fine in other SD devices, but for whatever reason (bad driver, flaky controller etc) they cause issues in the DVP.
Can someone try this:
If you have a 32GB card installed, can you load it up until close to 29 to 30GB and see if you have similar crashes. The theory behind this is if the OS is having problem once the card reaches a certain percentage. Again since the 8GB versions don't have problem - my theory might be wrong. Another thought is Dell or WP7 OS /driver is fine tuned for 8GB, may be?
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Can someone try this:
If you have a 32GB card installed, can you load it up until close to 29 to 30GB and see if you have similar crashes. The theory behind this is if the OS is having problem once the card reaches a certain percentage. Again since the 8GB versions don't have problem - my theory might be wrong. Another thought is Dell or WP7 OS /driver is fine tuned for 8GB, may be?
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I doubt it's the remaining space as many people had the problem almost immediately after the phone came out. Also many have exchanged the phone at least once and stll had the problem. I would hope people are testing the replacements before immediately syncing tons of content, but I could be wrong.
The card size probably isn't the problem since people have replaced with other 16GB or 32GB cards and said it fixed the crashing.
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I doubt it's the remaining space as many people had the problem almost immediately after the phone came out. Also many have exchanged the phone at least once and stll had the problem. I would hope people are testing the replacements before immediately syncing tons of content, but I could be wrong.
The card size probably isn't the problem since people have replaced with other 16GB or 32GB cards and said it fixed the crashing.
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Yep, I had 3 exchanges of the 16GB version and all had the same crashing while doing the initial sync with my pc, swapped in 2 32GB cards and nothing changed.
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Can someone try this:
If you have a 32GB card installed, can you load it up until close to 29 to 30GB and see if you have similar crashes. The theory behind this is if the OS is having problem once the card reaches a certain percentage. Again since the 8GB versions don't have problem - my theory might be wrong. Another thought is Dell or WP7 OS /driver is fine tuned for 8GB, may be?
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I've got ~6 Gigs free on a 32 GB install and it works fine. No more WiFI lockups. Phone now works great.
My only complaint is the camera still sucks for photo quality. I'm hoping the new firmware addresses that.
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I replaced mine with a sandisk 32g class 2 and it works. not sure if class 4 works better.
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Same here. I don't think class 2/4 matters that much, the important thing is to just get rid of the bad stock card!
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Can someone try this:
If you have a 32GB card installed, can you load it up until close to 29 to 30GB and see if you have similar crashes. The theory behind this is if the OS is having problem once the card reaches a certain percentage. Again since the 8GB versions don't have problem - my theory might be wrong. Another thought is Dell or WP7 OS /driver is fine tuned for 8GB, may be?
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I have the 32g, and loaded it up so only 4g remained free. there was a slow down in performance....just enough to notice, but I had no crashes or other hangs or freezes.
zaijian said:
Same here. I don't think class 2/4 matters that much, the important thing is to just get rid of the bad stock card!
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I tend to agree with you, it doesn't matter. I have tried both class 4 and Class 2. both work fairly well. I have had small hangs or feezes with both, but nothing like before. However, with Class 4, I recieved alot of Storage Card not working messages. Pulling hte battery to restart or reseat the card and continuing. I had not terminal failure, though there is a thread here with SD card for Newbies where someone appears to have a terminal failure with this message.
I have not recieved a single "Storage card not working" message with the class 2.
I was taken by the amazon ad that clearly shows a class 4 card but recieved the class 2....not regretting it now.
Quote from Ron Rule on twitter:
"How is it more 'convenient' to start an app, pick a card, enter PIN, then confirm vs. just swiping a credit card?"
You've got to admit he's got a point! Sometimes phones just aren't the best way to do things. I recently got my boarding card for a flight sent to my mobile as an MMS and it was a pain. It was a good way to show off my lovely SGS2 though! However next time I'm sticking to good old paper next time.
it's not as simple as just swiping a credit card, you have to take your wallet out of your pants and fumble around for your card. it's still probably faster than nfc still but the point of nfc imo is that if you have like a huge stack of cards like credit cards and gift cards, they're all just on your phone.
you wouldn't have to carry around all your cards on the off chance that you might want to use it that day. if you want to use your subway's gift card, it's already on your phone and you don't have to run home and get it
At least here in Croatia debit cards require a swiping, then have to be inserted into a machine and then you input a pin, wait a good 5~10 seconds for a confromation and you're done.
Credit cards require you to swipe the card and wait for the machine to print out a reciept that you have to sign.
So NFC makes a lot sense to me.
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it's not as simple as just swiping a credit card, you have to take your wallet out of your pants and fumble around for your card. it's still probably faster than nfc still but the point of nfc imo is that if you have like a huge stack of cards like credit cards and gift cards, they're all just on your phone.
you wouldn't have to carry around all your cards on the off chance that you might want to use it that day. if you want to use your subway's gift card, it's already on your phone and you don't have to run home and get it
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Most people have 1 card, some more.
It takes MUCH less place having cards, and if you can't take your card out properly, you need brain surgery or something.
For me this is just another marketing trick, like 3D.
BlueSebba said:
Most people have 1 card, some more.
It takes MUCH less place having cards, and if you can't take your card out properly, you need brain surgery or something.
For me this is just another marketing trick, like 3D.
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i'm just going by the nfc video that engadget showed before, where it had not just your credit card but restaurant and store gift cards. if you don't use gift cards then this is irrelevant to you
the point is that nfc isn't just used for credit cards. for example it was also used to check into google i/o
Personally I don't trust the technology enough to entrust it with my credit and debit card details.
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Personally I don't trust the technology enough to entrust it with my credit and debit card details.
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+1 for now
However I won't deny the fact that having a phone with this feature which I won't use often or just incase IS better than having a phone without it.
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Its not just about paying for things either, you could have a train ticket on your phone linked to foursquare and when you tap to go through the barriers it checks you in at that location automatically.
Or being at places where areas or stands could have nfc so people can get more information like having one at a restaurant automatically puts the name, number and menu on your phone.
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nfc is going to come with next batch of s2 ?
i hav checked samsung's official website and it does not mention nfc anywhere..jst want to know if except korea any other has got nfc ? Like UK,etc...i also read that micro sd's are being made wid nfc support but they dont work in a metal tray.So guessing nfc will be added in our sim's by our respective carriers in the future if at all needed..i mean replace our old sim wid nfc included sim.Please correct me if im wrong,im jst pointing out that nfc takes a very small place and it can be placed even in a sim in near future.So not having nfc must not be an issue UNLESS IF SAMSUNG BRINGS NFC ON THERE NEXT OR 3RD BATCH OF S2 TO INDIA..early owners will be a whole lot of disappointd if sammy does so.anyway i doubt any country would get it 1st of all except korea ofcourse.
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it's not as simple as just swiping a credit card, you have to take your wallet out of your pants and fumble around for your card. it's still probably faster than nfc still but the point of nfc imo is that if you have like a huge stack of cards like credit cards and gift cards, they're all just on your phone.
you wouldn't have to carry around all your cards on the off chance that you might want to use it that day. if you want to use your subway's gift card, it's already on your phone and you don't have to run home and get it
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They already have keychain quick devices that can load all your credit cards onto, and they are free.
Moandal said:
Quote from Ron Rule on twitter:
"How is it more 'convenient' to start an app, pick a card, enter PIN, then confirm vs. just swiping a credit card?"
You've got to admit he's got a point! Sometimes phones just aren't the best way to do things. I recently got my boarding card for a flight sent to my mobile as an MMS and it was a pain. It was a good way to show off my lovely SGS2 though! However next time I'm sticking to good old paper next time.
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Wouldn't it also be an identity theft's dream come true. Your phone #s, social media info, credit card info, all located in one device. Also don't forget what do you do if your phone dies and you need to make a purchase? Or if you drop your phone? Or it gets stolen? Or buy a new phone (have to resync all that crap again)? So it isn't going to completely replace your credit card. Also for the guy that so fumble for your wallet. I guess your phone is in hand 24/7?
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Wouldn't it also be an identity theft's dream come true. Your phone #s, social media info, credit card info, all located in one device. Also don't forget what do you do if your phone dies and you need to make a purchase? Or if you drop your phone? Or it gets stolen? Or buy a new phone (have to resync all that crap again)? So it isn't going to completely replace your credit card. Also for the guy that so fumble for your wallet. I guess your phone is in hand 24/7?
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Actually I was wondering that the other day.
But I think it's worth having seeing as most of us have our hands in our phones a lot of the time, so of course in time, it'll probably become natural to those who use it.
I think that they need is a screen that can take a finger print and therefore NFC is only enabled when that certain fingerprint is on the screen. Sounds a bit far fetched but what are the bets that'll be implemented on phones in a year or two? There's only so many cores you can stick in one CPU
What everyone seems to be missing is that embedded NFC transactions won't just replace the swiping of a credit card, its able to do a lot more to change the way consumers shop and make transactions.
Let alone the multitude of other uses for NFC. People will start to use it for more than shopping as the technology becomes more widespread. Developers just need more incentive to be creative and really unlock it's potential.
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Intratech said:
Personally I don't trust the technology enough to entrust it with my credit and debit card details.
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It wouldn't be the first time someone has distrusted a new technology because they don't understand it. No offense. I'm sure companies will start public awareness campaigns to quell this.
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It's another android system waiting to be hacked, bigtime.
sleeco said:
It's another android system waiting to be hacked, bigtime.
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Please, more FUD
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i'm studying electrical and electronic engineering and i'm sure sooner hackers will try hack the NFC to steal credit card details. But NFC is good for health monitoring in the future.
I'm quite sick and tired of taking out my card out of my wallet every time I get on and get off a public transport, its so much hassle.
I would prefer to just scan the phone one one of those receivers since I always have my phone out on the public transport anyway.
zoobzone said:
I would prefer to just scan the phone one one of those receivers since I always have my phone out on the public transport anyway.
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I noticed in that google nfc video that you still have to sign your signature on the receiver, kinda a let down imo as paying at the pumps or shopping online you don't need any signature.
I recently bought a 32gb sandisk sd card and ever since I got it iv been having problems. I put music on it and sometimes it only recognizes one artist and with the rest it just skips through the songs and doesn't even play at all. And with video's/movies/tv shows the phone doesn't even read them or anything.. Iv tried formatting the card, but that still doesn't help. Any ideas what is wrong with it?
Unfortunately it sounds as though you have got hold of one of Sandisks bad cards. It was a widespread problem with their 32gb cards that they fail in some form or another. Do some Googling and you will see many others complaining of the same issues. Contact Sandisk directly....they are known to have great customer service and will almost certainly send you a new card (hopefilly from a new batch without the problems).
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Unfortunately it sounds as though you have got hold of one of Sandisks bad cards. It was a widespread problem with their 32gb cards that they fail in some form or another. Do some Googling and you will see many others complaining of the same issues. Contact Sandisk directly....they are known to have great customer service and will almost certainly send you a new card (hopefilly from a new batch without the problems).
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I will do this, thank you for the reply.
In had two of these cards go bad and just contacted them. They sent me an email with a bunch of questions which i answered so hopefully I will get replacements
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