Soon, a Passe Navigo established in smartphones via NFC?

Edit: According to a reader, the implementation is already being tested for some lucky. Good news for Paris, but is it good for our new smartphones? According to our colleagues in the Journal du Geek, the Syndicat des transports d’Ile-de-France (STIF) have responded favorably to the introduction of smartphones in the Navigo Pass incorporating NFC technology. The idea is good, even very good, however, supporting mobile NFC technology are still very rare. There is the Google Nexus S, and possibly future iPhone, as well as some upcoming HTC, Sony Ericsson, and probably some other manufacturers, but it is still too vague to be precise.

The final decision remains unclear since no specific action has been initiated. As noted by Ben in the medium term, it could be that one can recharge your password by taking advantage of the over-the-air. This would follow the expiry date and update the Passe Navigo since its smartphone. If the first step is taken, the desire would certainly invite in other French companies may be banks, bakeries and other businesses subject to be interested.

In Japan and Korea, it is of course already possible to pay public transport using his mobile phone, having it on a stone as you would for a map. However the implementation of the technology is different.

If we go into detail, we see a problem in the implementation of this scenario with the Android APIs Google NFC as they are made today. The APIs do not support this mode completely passive (“map mode”) and focus on a PUSH mode. The last time we put the question to Google, the answer was he did not want to see this scenario in Android, as it would be difficult to manage by the user: how to decide which application would have access to data in the ” map. “

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