Available in spring 2010 in Japan, marketplace FeliCa will allow users to read and write electronic money card information using the iPhone device and marketplace FeliCa App.
FeliCa is a contactless IC card technology developed by Sony Corporation that is prevalent in Asian countries, used in approximately 100 million mobile phones and more than 120 million transportation and electronic money cards in Japan alone. mophie’s marketplace FeliCa capitalizes on the widespread use of FeliCa technology and delivers solutions for consumer, general business and retail business users who want to process electronic payments in a mobile environment.
The marketplace FeliCa, which includes mophie’s intelligent case hardware and FeliCa transaction processing App, will read and write FeliCa card information to the iPhone device, allowing users to perform multiple mobile payment transactions. Leveraging the RFID technology of the FeliCa cards, users launch the marketplace App and place any FeliCa card within one inch of the iPhone, and all information is transmitted instantly to the device.
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